Job 9 | Biblion Bible Reader

WEB·Job 10

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

KJVMy soul^H5315 is weary^H5354^(H8804) of my life^H2416; I will leave^H5800^(H8799) my complaint^H7879 upon myself; I will speak^H1696^(H8762) in the bitterness^H4751 of my soul^H5315.

² I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

KJVI will say^H559^(H8799) unto God^H433, Do not condemn^H7561^(H8686) me; shew^H3045^(H8685) me wherefore thou contendest^H7378^(H8799) with me.

³ Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

KJVIs it good^H2895^(H8804) unto thee that thou shouldest oppress^H6231^(H8799), that thou shouldest despise^H3988^(H8799) the work^H3018 of thine hands^H3709, and shine^H3313^(H8689) upon the counsel^H6098 of the wicked^H7563?

⁴ Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

KJVHast thou eyes^H5869 of flesh^H1320? or seest^H7200^(H8799) thou as man^H582 seeth^H7200^(H8800)?

⁵ Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

KJVAre thy days^H3117 as the days^H3117 of man^H582? are thy years^H8141 as man's^H1397 days^H3117,

⁶ that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

KJVThat thou enquirest^H1245^(H8762) after mine iniquity^H5771, and searchest^H1875^(H8799) after my sin^H2403?

⁷ Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

KJVThou knowest^H1847 that I am not wicked^H7561^(H8799); and there is none that can deliver^H5337^(H8688) out of thine hand^H3027.

⁸ “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

KJVThine hands^H3027 have made^H6087^(H8765) me and fashioned^H6213^(H8799) me together^H3162 round about^H5439; yet thou dost destroy^H1104^(H8762) me.

⁹ Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

KJVRemember^H2142^(H8798), I beseech thee, that thou hast made^H6213^(H8804) me as the clay^H2563; and wilt thou bring^H7725 me into dust^H6083 again^H7725^(H8686)?

¹⁰ Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

KJVHast thou not poured me out^H5413^(H8686) as milk^H2461, and curdled^H7087^(H8686) me like cheese^H1385?

¹¹ You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

KJVThou hast clothed^H3847^(H8686) me with skin^H5785 and flesh^H1320, and hast fenced^H7753^(H8787) me with bones^H6106 and sinews^H1517.

¹² You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

KJVThou hast granted^H6213^(H8804) me life^H2416 and favour^H2617, and thy visitation^H6486 hath preserved^H8104^(H8804) my spirit^H7307.

¹³ Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

KJVAnd these things hast thou hid^H6845^(H8804) in thine heart^H3824: I know^H3045^(H8804) that this is with thee.

¹⁴ if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

KJVIf I sin^H2398^(H8804), then thou markest^H8104^(H8804) me, and thou wilt not acquit^H5352^(H8762) me from mine iniquity^H5771.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

KJVIf I be wicked^H7561^(H8804), woe^H480 unto me; and if I be righteous^H6663^(H8804), yet will I not lift up^H5375^(H8799) my head^H7218. I am full^H7649 of confusion^H7036; therefore see^H7202^(H8798)^(H8676)^H7200^(H8798) thou mine affliction^H6040;

¹⁶ If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

KJVFor it increaseth^H1342^(H8799). Thou huntest^H6679^(H8799) me as a fierce lion^H7826: and again^H7725^(H8799) thou shewest thyself marvellous^H6381^(H8691) upon me.

¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

KJVThou renewest^H2318^(H8762) thy witnesses^H5707 against me, and increasest^H7235^(H8686) thine indignation^H3708 upon me^H5978; changes^H2487 and war^H6635 are against me.

¹⁸ “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

KJVWherefore then hast thou brought me forth^H3318^(H8689) out of the womb^H7358? Oh that I had given up the ghost^H1478^(H8799), and no eye^H5869 had seen^H7200^(H8799) me!

¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

KJVI should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried^H2986^(H8714) from the womb^H990 to the grave^H6913.

²⁰ Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

KJVAre not my days^H3117 few^H4592? cease^H2308^(H8798)^(H8675)^H2308^(H8799) then, and let me alone^H7896^(H8798)^(H8675)^H7896^(H8799), that I may take comfort^H1082^(H8686) a little^H4592,

²¹ before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

KJVBefore I go^H3212^(H8799) whence I shall not return^H7725^(H8799), even to the land^H776 of darkness^H2822 and the shadow of death^H6757;

²² the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”

KJVA land^H776 of darkness^H5890, as darkness^H652 itself; and of the shadow of death^H6757, without any order^H5468, and where the light^H3313^(H8686) is as darkness^H652.

WEB·Job 9

¹Then Job answered,

KJVThen Job^H347 answered^H6030^(H8799) and said^H559^(H8799),

² “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

KJVI know^H3045^(H8804) it is so of a truth^H551: but how should man^H582 be just^H6663^(H8799) with God^H410?

³ If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

KJVIf he will^H2654^(H8799) contend^H7378^(H8800) with him, he cannot answer^H6030^(H8799) him one^H259 of a thousand^H505.

⁴ God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

KJVHe is wise^H2450 in heart^H3824, and mighty^H533 in strength^H3581: who hath hardened^H7185^(H8689) himself against him, and hath prospered^H7999^(H8799)?

⁵ He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

KJVWhich removeth^H6275^(H8688) the mountains^H2022, and they know^H3045^(H8804) not: which overturneth^H2015^(H8804) them in his anger^H639.

⁶ He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

KJVWhich shaketh^H7264^(H8688) the earth^H776 out of her place^H4725, and the pillars^H5982 thereof tremble^H6426^(H8691).

⁷ He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

KJVWhich commandeth^H559^(H8802) the sun^H2775, and it riseth^H2224^(H8799) not; and sealeth up^H2856^(H8799) the stars^H3556.

⁸ He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

KJVWhich alone spreadeth out^H5186^(H8802) the heavens^H8064, and treadeth^H1869^(H8802) upon the waves^H1116 of the sea^H3220.

⁹ He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

KJVWhich maketh^H6213^(H8802) Arcturus^H5906, Orion^H3685, and Pleiades^H3598, and the chambers^H2315 of the south^H8486.

¹⁰ He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

KJVWhich doeth^H6213^(H8802) great things^H1419 past^H369 finding out^H2714; yea, and wonders^H6381^(H8737) without number^H4557.

¹¹ Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

KJVLo, he goeth^H5674^(H8799) by me, and I see^H7200^(H8799) him not: he passeth on^H2498^(H8799) also, but I perceive^H995^(H8799) him not.

¹² Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

KJVBehold, he taketh away^H2862^(H8799), who can hinder^H7725^(H8686) him? who will say^H559^(H8799) unto him, What doest^H6213^(H8799) thou?

¹³ “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

KJVIf God^H433 will not withdraw^H7725^(H8686) his anger^H639, the proud^H7293 helpers^H5826^(H8802) do stoop^H7817^(H8804) under him.

¹⁴ How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?

KJVHow much less shall I answer^H6030^(H8799) him, and choose out^H977^(H8799) my words^H1697 to reason with him?

¹⁵ Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

KJVWhom, though I were righteous^H6663^(H8804), yet would I not answer^H6030^(H8799), but I would make supplication^H2603^(H8691) to my judge^H8199^(H8781).

¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

KJVIf I had called^H7121^(H8804), and he had answered^H6030^(H8799) me; yet would I not believe^H539^(H8686) that he had hearkened^H238^(H8686) unto my voice^H6963.

¹⁷ For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

KJVFor he breaketh^H7779^(H8799) me with a tempest^H8183, and multiplieth^H7235^(H8689) my wounds^H6482 without cause^H2600.

¹⁸ He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

KJVHe will not suffer^H5414^(H8799) me to take^H7725^(H8687) my breath^H7307, but filleth^H7646^(H8686) me with bitterness^H4472.

¹⁹ If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

KJVIf I speak of strength^H3581, lo, he is strong^H533: and if of judgment^H4941, who shall set^H3259^(H8686) me a time to plead?

²⁰ Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

KJVIf I justify^H6663^(H8799) myself, mine own mouth^H6310 shall condemn^H7561^(H8686) me: if I say, I am perfect^H8535, it shall also prove me perverse^H6140^(H8799).

²¹ I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

KJVThough I were perfect^H8535, yet would I not know^H3045^(H8799) my soul^H5315: I would despise^H3988^(H8799) my life^H2416.

²² “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

KJVThis is one^H259 thing, therefore I said^H559^(H8804) it, He destroyeth^H3615^(H8764) the perfect^H8535 and the wicked^H7563.

²³ If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

KJVIf the scourge^H7752 slay^H4191^(H8686) suddenly^H6597, he will laugh^H3932^(H8799) at the trial^H4531 of the innocent^H5355.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

KJVThe earth^H776 is given^H5414^(H8738) into the hand^H3027 of the wicked^H7563: he covereth^H3680^(H8762) the faces^H6440 of the judges^H8199^(H8802) thereof; if not, where^H645, and who is he?

²⁵ “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

KJVNow my days^H3117 are swifter^H7043^(H8804) than a post^H7323^(H8801): they flee away^H1272^(H8804), they see^H7200^(H8804) no good^H2896.

²⁶ They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

KJVThey are passed away^H2498^(H8804) as^H5973 the swift^H16 ships^H591: as the eagle^H5404 that hasteth^H2907^(H8799) to the prey^H400.

²⁷ If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’

KJVIf I say^H559^(H8800), I will forget^H7911^(H8799) my complaint^H7879, I will leave off^H5800^(H8799) my heaviness^H6440, and comfort^H1082^(H8686) myself:

²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.

KJVI am afraid^H3025^(H8804) of all my sorrows^H6094, I know^H3045^(H8804) that thou wilt not hold me innocent^H5352^(H8762).

²⁹ I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

KJVIf I be wicked^H7561^(H8799), why then labour^H3021^(H8799) I in vain^H1892?

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

KJVIf I wash^H7364^(H8694) myself with^H7950 snow water^H4325^H1119, and make my hands^H3709 never^H1252^(H8676)^H1253 so clean^H2141^(H8689);

³¹ yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

KJVYet^H227 shalt thou plunge^H2881^(H8799) me in the ditch^H7845, and mine own clothes^H8008 shall abhor^H8581^(H8765) me.

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

KJVFor he is not a man^H376, as I am, that I should answer^H6030^(H8799) him, and we should come^H935^(H8799) together^H3162 in judgment^H4941.

³³ There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

KJVNeither is^H3426 there any daysman^H3198^(H8688) betwixt us, that might lay^H7896^(H8799) his hand^H3027 upon us both^H8147.

³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

KJVLet him take^H5493 his rod^H7626 away^H5493^(H8686) from me, and let not his fear^H367 terrify^H1204^(H8762) me:

³⁵ then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

KJVThen would I speak^H1696^(H8762), and not fear^H3372^(H8799) him; but it is not so with me.

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