My LORD’s BibleJob 19
1Then Job answered and said,
וַיַּעַן אִיֹּוב וַיֹּאמַר׃ (412)
2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
עַד־אָנָה תֹּוגְיוּן נַפְשִׁי וּתְדַכְּאוּנַנִי בְמִלִּים׃ (1714)
See also: Job 27:12, Job 34:24, Psalms 72:4, Judges 16:16, 2 Samuel 2:26, Job 8:2, Job 13:5, Job 16:2, Job 18:2, Job 27:2, Psalms 6:2-3, Psalms 13:1, Psalms 42:10, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 59:7, Psalms 64:3, Psalms 109:16, Psalms 119:22, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 18:21
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
זֶה עֶשֶׂר פְּעָמִים תַּכְלִימוּנִי לֹא־תֵבֹשׁוּ תַּהְכְּרוּ־לִי׃ (2798)
See also: Genesis 31:7, Numbers 14:22, Zechariah 8:23, Nehemiah 4:12, Job 15:4-6, Job 15:11-12, Job 18:4-21, Job 19:17, Psalms 69:8, Daniel 1:20, Amos 1:3, Genesis 42:7, Job 4:6-11, Job 5:3-4, Job 8:4-6, Job 11:3, Job 11:14, Job 20:3, Leviticus 26:26
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
וְאַף־אָמְנָם שָׁגִיתִי אִתִּי תָּלִין מְשׁוּגָתִי׃ (2601)
See also: Proverbs 9:12, Ezekiel 18:4, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 2 Samuel 24:17, Job 10:1, Job 11:3-6, Galatians 6:5
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
אִם־אָמְנָם עָלַי תַּגְדִּילוּ וְתֹוכִיחוּ עָלַי חֶרְפָּתִּי ׃ (1999)
See also: Psalms 35:26, Psalms 38:16, Psalms 55:12, 1 Samuel 1:6, Nehemiah 1:3, Job 13:19, Psalms 41:11, Isaiah 4:1, Micah 7:8, Zephaniah 2:10, Zechariah 12:7, Luke 1:25, Luke 13:2-4, John 9:2, John 9:34
6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
דְּעוּ־אֵפֹו כִּי־אֱלֹוהַּ עִוְּתָנִי וּמְצוּדֹו עָלַי הִקִּיף׃ (1232)
See also: Ruth 1:20, Job 18:8-10, Lamentations 1:13, Job 7:20, Job 16:11-14, Job 27:2, Job 30:21, Job 40:2, Psalms 66:11, Job 10:17, Job 22:10, Job 32:13, Job 35:2, Job 36:8, Psalms 44:9-14, Psalms 66:10-12, Lamentations 1:12-13, Ezekiel 12:13, Ezekiel 32:3, Hosea 7:12
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
הֵן אֶצְעַק חָמָס וְלֹא אֵעָנֶה אֲשַׁוַּע וְאֵין מִשְׁפָּט׃ (1460)
See also: Job 30:20, Lamentations 3:8, Habakkuk 1:2-3, Psalms 55:17, Job 21:27, Job 23:3-7, Job 30:28, Job 31:35-36, Job 34:5, Job 40:8, Job 8:3, Job 9:24, Job 9:32, Job 10:3, Job 10:15-17, Job 13:15-23, Job 16:17-19, Job 16:21, Job 30:24, Job 35:14
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
אָרְחִי גָדַר וְלֹא אֶעֱבֹור וְעַל נְתִיבֹותַי חֹשֶׁךְ יָשִׂים׃ (2414)
See also: Job 3:23, Lamentations 3:7, Hosea 2:6, Job 23:17, Psalms 88:8, Proverbs 4:19, Lamentations 3:9, Job 36:16, Psalms 107:14, Joshua 24:7, Job 22:11, Job 30:26, Isaiah 50:10, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 23:12, Lamentations 3:5, John 8:12, Genesis 31:7
9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
כְּבֹודִי מֵעָלַי הִפְשִׁיט וַיָּסַר עֲטֶרֶת רֹאשִׁי׃ (2062)
See also: Psalms 89:44, Job 29:7-14, Lamentations 5:16, Job 12:17, Job 30:1, Psalms 89:39, Job 1:18, Job 29:20-21, Psalms 49:16-17, Isaiah 61:6, Hosea 9:11, Colossians 2:19
10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
יִתְּצֵנִי סָבִיב וָאֵלַךְ וַיַּסַּע כָּעֵץ תִּקְוָתִי׃ (1933)
See also: Job 14:7, Job 24:20, Psalms 37:35-36, Job 12:14, Job 14:19, Job 17:15, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Joshua 10:35, Job 1:13-19, Job 2:7, Job 6:11, Job 7:6, Job 8:13-18, Job 17:11, Psalms 88:13-18, Psalms 102:11, Lamentations 2:5-6
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
וַיַּחַר עָלַי אַפֹּו וַיַּחְשְׁבֵנִי לֹו כְצָרָיו׃ (1169)
See also: Job 13:24, Job 16:9, Job 33:10, Jeremiah 30:14, Genesis 42:14, Deuteronomy 32:22, Job 31:35, Psalms 89:46, Psalms 90:7, Lamentations 2:5
12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
יַחַד ׀ יָבֹאוּ גְדוּדָיו וַיָּסֹלּוּ עָלַי דַּרְכָּם וַיַּחֲנוּ סָבִיב לְאָהֳלִי׃ (790)
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
אַחַי מֵעָלַי הִרְחִיק וְיֹדְעַי אַךְ־זָרוּ מִמֶּנִּי׃ (966)
See also: Matthew 10:36, Job 42:11, Psalms 38:11, Psalms 41:9, Psalms 88:8, Psalms 142:4, Psalms 69:8, Psalms 88:18, Matthew 26:31, Psalms 31:11, Proverbs 19:4, Psalms 54:3, Psalms 69:20, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:19, Job 6:21-23, Job 16:7, Job 18:20, Job 30:1, Job 30:10
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
חָדְלוּ קְרֹובָי וּמְיֻדָּעַי שְׁכֵחוּנִי׃ (900)
See also: Psalms 38:11, Genesis 40:23, Job 2:8, 2 Samuel 16:23, Job 2:12, Psalms 55:12-14, Proverbs 18:24, Jeremiah 20:10, Micah 7:5-6, Matthew 10:21, John 13:18
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
גָּרֵי בֵיתִי וְאַמְהֹתַי לְזָר תַּחְשְׁבֻנִי נָכְרִי הָיִיתִי בְעֵינֵיהֶם׃ (3006)
See also: Job 31:31-32, Psalms 123:3
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
לְעַבְדִּי קָרָאתִי וְלֹא יַעֲנֶה בְּמֹו־פִי אֶתְחַנֶּן־לֹו׃ (1682)
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
רוּחִי זָרָה לְאִשְׁתִּי וְחַנֹּתִי לִבְנֵי בִטְנִי׃ (1814)
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
גַּם־עֲוִילִים מָאֲסוּ בִי אָקוּמָה וַיְדַבְּרוּ־בִי׃ (720)
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
תִּעֲבוּנִי כָּל־מְתֵי סֹודִי וְזֶה־אָהַבְתִּי נֶהְפְּכוּ־בִי׃ (1727)
See also: Psalms 41:9, Psalms 55:12-14, Psalms 109:4-5, Jeremiah 20:10, Matthew 10:21, Job 6:14-15, Job 6:15, Job 30:10, Psalms 38:11, Psalms 55:20, Luke 22:21, Luke 22:48, Job 2:11
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
בְּעֹורִי וּבִבְשָׂרִי דָּבְקָה עַצְמִי וָאֶתְמַלְּטָה בְּעֹור שִׁנָּי׃ (2258)
See also: Psalms 102:5, Job 33:21, Job 16:8, Lamentations 4:8, Job 2:5, Job 30:18, Job 33:19-22, Psalms 109:24, Job 2:4-6, Job 7:5, Job 14:22, Job 20:11, Job 21:5, Job 30:30, Psalms 22:14-17, Psalms 32:3-4, Psalms 38:3, Psalms 102:3, Lamentations 3:4, Lamentations 5:10
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
חָנֻּנִי חָנֻּנִי אַתֶּם רֵעָי כִּי יַד־אֱלֹוהַּ נָגְעָה בִּי׃ (1183)
See also: Job 1:11, Ruth 1:13, Job 4:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ruth 2:9, Job 6:9, Psalms 38:2, Lamentations 3:1, Acts 13:11, Genesis 3:3, Job 2:5, Job 2:10, Job 2:11, Job 6:4, Job 6:14, Job 32:13, Psalms 69:20, Psalms 69:26, Psalms 109:16, Jeremiah 15:5
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
לָמָּה תִּרְדְּפֻנִי כְמֹו־אֵל וּמִבְּשָׂרִי לֹא תִשְׂבָּעוּ׃ (2283)
See also: Psalms 69:26, Job 19:28, Psalms 27:2, Job 2:5, Job 10:16, Job 13:25, Job 14:22, Job 16:11, Job 30:21, Job 31:31, Isaiah 51:23, Micah 3:3, Job 16:13-14
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
מִי־יִתֵּן אֵפֹו וְיִכָּתְבוּן מִלָּי מִי־יִתֵּן בַּסֵּפֶר וְיֻחָקוּ׃ (2153)
See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:8, Isaiah 30:8, Jeremiah 17:1, Isaiah 8:1, Deuteronomy 6:9, Job 31:35, Psalms 102:18, Malachi 3:16, Exodus 17:14, Jeremiah 30:2
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
בְּעֵט־בַּרְזֶל וְעֹפָרֶת לָעַד בַּצּוּר יֵחָצְבוּן׃ (1644)
See also: Jeremiah 17:1, Exodus 28:11-12, Exodus 28:21, Exodus 32:16, Deuteronomy 27:2-3, Deuteronomy 27:8
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
וַאֲנִי יָדַעְתִּי גֹּאֲלִי חָי וְאַחֲרֹון עַל־עָפָר יָקוּם׃ (1500)
See also: Ephesians 1:7, Isaiah 54:5, Psalms 78:35, 2 Corinthians 5:1, John 11:25, Job 13:15, Psalms 19:14, Proverbs 23:11, John 5:22-29, Isaiah 59:20-21, Jeremiah 50:34, Isaiah 43:14, Psalms 138:7, Job 16:19, 1 Peter 1:5, Revelation 1:18, John 5:28, Jude 1:14, Daniel 12:2, Hebrews 9:27
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
וְאַחַר עֹורִי נִקְּפוּ־זֹאת וּמִבְּשָׂרִי אֶחֱזֶה אֱלֹוהַּ׃ (1766)
See also: Matthew 5:8, 2 Corinthians 4:16, 1 John 3:2, Psalms 17:15, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Revelation 1:7, Hebrews 12:14, Psalms 16:9, Psalms 16:11, Job 14:10, 1 Corinthians 15:53, Philippians 1:23, Philippians 3:21, Job 14:22, Acts 12:23, Genesis 3:19, Job 7:5, Job 21:26, Job 24:20, Acts 13:36
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי ׀ אֶחֱזֶה־לִּי וְעֵינַי רָאוּ וְלֹא־זָר כָּלוּ כִלְיֹתַי בְּחֵקִי׃ (1866)
28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
כִּי תֹאמְרוּ מַה־נִּרְדָּף־לֹו וְשֹׁרֶשׁ דָּבָר נִמְצָא־בִי׃ (2297)
See also: Matthew 13:21, 1 John 3:9, Job 19:22, Mark 4:17, 1 Kings 14:13, Job 6:13, Psalms 69:26, Luke 8:13
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
גּוּרוּ לָכֶם ׀ מִפְּנֵי־חֶרֶב כִּי־חֵמָה עֲוֹנֹות חָרֶב לְמַעַן תֵּדְעוּן [שַׁדִּין כ] (שַׁדּוּן׃ ק) (3084)
See also: Ecclesiastes 11:9, Ecclesiastes 12:14, Job 22:4, Job 13:7-11, Job 15:22, Job 20:3, Psalms 1:5, Psalms 9:7, Psalms 58:10-11, Matthew 7:1-2, Romans 13:1-4, James 4:11-12