Job 19
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Job makes complaint about unkind usage | ||
| And Job made answer and said, | Then Job answered, | |
Verse 1 WEB Then Job answered, KJV Then Job answered and said, TSK No cross references. |
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| How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? | “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? | |
Verse 2 WEB “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? KJV How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? TSK How long: job 8:2, job 18:2, ps 13:1, re 6:10; vex: job 27:2, jud 16:16, ps 6:2,3, ps 42:10, 2pe 2:7,8; break me: ps 55:21, ps 59:7, ps 64:3, pr 12:18, pr 18:21, jas 3:6-8 |
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| Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong. | You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. | |
Verse 3 WEB You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. KJV These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. TSK ten times: ge 31:7, le 26:26, nu 14:22, ne 4:12, da 1:20; ye reproached: job 4:6-11, job 5:3,4, job 8:4-6, job 11:3,14, job 15:4-6,11,12, job 18:4-21; make yourselves strange to me: job 19:17, ge 42:7, ps 69:8 |
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| And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself. | If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. | |
Verse 4 WEB If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. KJV And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. TSK I have erred: job 11:3-6; mine: 2sa 24:17, pr 9:12, eze 18:4, 2co 5:10, ga 6:5 |
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| If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me, | If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach; | |
Verse 5 WEB If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach; KJV If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: TSK magnify: ps 35:26, ps 38:16, ps 41:11, ps 55:12, mic 7:8, zep 2:10, zec 12:7; plead: 1sa 1:6, ne 1:3, isa 4:1, lu 1:25, lu 13:2-4, joh 9:2,34 |
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| Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. | know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. | |
Verse 6 WEB know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. KJV Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. TSK God: job 7:20, job 16:11-14, ps 44:9-14, ps 66:10-12; compassed: job 18:8-10, la 1:12,13, eze 12:13, eze 32:3, ho 7:12 |
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| Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. | “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. | |
Verse 7 WEB “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. KJV Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. TSK I cry: job 10:3,15-17, job 16:17-19, job 21:27, ps 22:2, jer 20:8, la 3:8, hab 1:2,3; no judgment: job 9:32, job 13:15-23, job 16:21, job 23:3-7, job 31:35,36, job 34:5, job 40:8 |
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God was the Author of his troubles | ||
| My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. | He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths. | |
Verse 8 WEB He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths. KJV He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. TSK fenced: job 3:23, ps 88:8, la 3:7,9, ho 2:6; set: jos 24:7, pr 4:19, isa 50:10, jer 13:16, jer 23:12, joh 8:12 |
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| He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. | He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | |
Verse 9 WEB He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. KJV He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. TSK stripped: job 29:7-14,20,21, job 30:1, ps 49:16,17, ps 89:44, isa 61:6, ho 9:11 |
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| I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. | He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree. | |
Verse 10 WEB He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree. KJV He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. TSK destroyed: job 1:13-19, job 2:7, ps 88:13-18, la 2:5,6, 2co 4:8,9; I am gone: job 17:11, ps 102:11; mine hope: job 6:11, job 8:13-18, job 17:15, job 24:20, ps 37:35,36 |
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| His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters. | He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. | |
Verse 11 WEB He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. KJV He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. TSK kindled: de 32:22, ps 89:46, ps 90:7; he counteth: job 13:24, job 16:9, job 33:10, la 2:5 |
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| His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine. | His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. | |
Verse 12 WEB His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. KJV His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. TSK His: job 16:11, isa 10:5,6, isa 51:23; raise: job 30:12 |
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| He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. | “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. | |
Verse 13 WEB “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. KJV He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. TSK put my brethren: ps 31:11, ps 38:11, ps 69:8,20, ps 88:8,18, mt 26:56, 2ti 4:16; estranged: job 6:21-23 |
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| My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. | My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. | |
Verse 14 WEB My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. KJV My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. TSK kinsfolk: ps 38:11, pr 18:24, mic 7:5,6, mt 10:21; familiar: 2sa 16:23, ps 55:12-14, jer 20:10, joh 13:18 |
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| I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. | Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. | |
Verse 15 WEB Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. KJV They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. TSK count me: job 31:31,32, ps 123:3 |
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| At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. | I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. | |
Verse 16 WEB I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. KJV I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. TSK my servant: job 1:15,16,17,19 |
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| My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. | My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. | |
Verse 17 WEB My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. KJV My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. TSK breath: job 2:9,10, job 17:1 |
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| Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. | Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. | |
Verse 18 WEB Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. KJV Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. TSK Yea: job 30:1,12, 2ki 2:23, isa 3:5 |
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| All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me. | All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. | |
Verse 19 WEB All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. KJV All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. TSK my inward friends: ps 41:9, ps 55:12-14,20; they whom: job 6:14,15, ps 109:4,5, lu 22:48 |
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| My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth. | My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | |
Verse 20 WEB My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. KJV My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. TSK bone: job 30:30, job 33:19-22, ps 22:14-17, ps 32:3,4, ps 38:3, ps 102:3,5, la 4:8; and I am: job 2:4-6, job 7:5, la 3:4, la 5:10 |
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| Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me. | “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. | |
Verse 21 WEB “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. KJV Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. TSK have pity: job 6:14, ro 12:15, 1co 12:26, heb 13:3; the hand: job 1:11, job 2:5,10, job 6:4, ps 38:2 |
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| Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me? | Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | |
Verse 22 WEB Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? KJV Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? TSK persecute: job 10:16, job 16:13,14, ps 69:26; and are not: job 2:5, job 31:31, isa 51:23, mic 3:3 |
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Job's belief in the coming back from death | ||
| If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! | “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | |
Verse 23 WEB “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! KJV Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! |
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| And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! | That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! | |
Verse 24 WEB That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! KJV That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! TSK graven: ex 28:11,12,21, ex 32:16, de 27:2,3,8, jer 17:1 |
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| But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust; | But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. | |
Verse 25 WEB But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. KJV For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: TSK I know: job 33:23,24, ps 19:14, isa 54:5, isa 59:20,21, eph 1:7; he shall: ge 3:15, ge 22:18, joh 5:22-29, jude 1:14 |
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| And...without my flesh I will see God; | After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, | |
Verse 26 WEB After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, KJV And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: TSK And though, etc: ps 17:15; in my flesh: ps 16:9,11, mt 5:8, 1co 13:12, 1co 15:53, php 3:21, 1jo 3:2, re 1:7 |
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| Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire. | Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me. | |
Verse 27 WEB Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me. KJV Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. |
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| If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him: | If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me, | |
Verse 28 WEB If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me, KJV But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? |
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| Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge. | be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” | |
Verse 29 WEB be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” KJV Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. TSK ye afraid: job 13:7-11, ro 13:1-4; that ye may: ps 58:10,11, ec 11:9, mt 7:1,2, jas 4:11,12 |
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