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Job - Eyov [Job]
¶Then Job answered,
¶Then Job answered,
- “How long will you torment me,
- and crush me with words?
- “How long will you torment me,
- and crush me with words?
- You have reproached me ten times.
- You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
- You have reproached me ten times.
- You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
- If it is true that I have erred,
- my error remains with myself.
- If it is true that I have erred,
- my error remains with myself.
- If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
- and plead against me my reproach;
- If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
- and plead against me my reproach;
- know now that God has subverted me,
- and has surrounded me with his net.
- know now that God has subverted me,
- and has surrounded me with his net.
- “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
- I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
- I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
- and has set darkness in my paths.
- He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
- and has set darkness in my paths.
- He has stripped me of my glory,
- and taken the crown from my head.
- He has stripped me of my glory,
- and taken the crown from my head.
- He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
- My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
- He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
- My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
- He has also kindled his wrath against me.
- He counts me among his adversaries.
- He has also kindled his wrath against me.
- He counts me among his adversaries.
- His troops come on together,
- build a siege ramp against me,
- and encamp around my tent.
- His troops come on together,
- build a siege ramp against me,
- and encamp around my tent.
- “He has put my brothers far from me.
- My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- “He has put my brothers far from me.
- My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- My relatives have gone away.
- My familiar friends have forgotten me.
- My relatives have gone away.
- My familiar friends have forgotten me.
- Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger.
- I am an alien in their sight.
- Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger.
- I am an alien in their sight.
- I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
- I beg him with my mouth.
- I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
- I beg him with my mouth.
My breath is offensive to my wife.I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.I approached my wife, I summoned my sons and my concubine with flattery
- My breath is offensive to my wife.
- I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
- Even young children despise me.
- If I arise, they speak against me.
- Even young children despise me.
- If I arise, they speak against me.
- All my familiar friends abhor me.
- They whom I loved have turned against me.
- All my familiar friends abhor me.
- They whom I loved have turned against me.
- My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
- I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
- I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends;
- for the hand of God has touched me.
- “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends;
- for the hand of God has touched me.
- Why do you persecute me as God,
- and are not satisfied with my flesh?
- Why do you persecute me as God,
- and are not satisfied with my flesh?
- “Oh that my words were now written!
- Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
- “Oh that my words were now written!
- Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
- That with an iron pen and lead
- they were engraved in the rock forever!
- That with an iron pen and lead
- they were engraved in the rock forever!
- But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
- In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
- But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
- In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
- After my skin is destroyed,
- then in my flesh shall I see God,
- After my skin is destroyed,
- then in my flesh shall I see God,
- Whom I, even I, shall see on my side.
- My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger.
- “My heart is consumed within me.
- Whom I, even I, shall see on my side.
- My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger.
- “My heart is consumed within me.
- If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
- because the root of the matter is found in me,
- If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
- because the root of the matter is found in me,
- be afraid of the sword,
- for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
- that you may know there is a judgment.”
Ketib: שדין ⬪ Qere: שַׁדּֽוּן׃
- be afraid of the sword,
- for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
- that you may know there is a judgment.”
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