Job 1:1--7:21
Uz <05780> [Uz.]
[Huz.]
Job <0347> [Job.]
pure <08535> [perfect.]
feared <03373> [one.]
Seven sons <01121 07651> [seven sons.]
possessions <04735> [substance. or, cattle.]
7,000 <07651> [seven.]
household <05657> [household. or, husbandry.]
greatest <01419> [greatest.]
people <01121> [men. Heb. sons.]
east <06924> [of the east.]
send ... invite <07121 07971> [sent and called.]
sanctify <06942> [sanctified.]
early <07925> [rose up.]
offer <05927> [offered.]
number <04557> [according.]
Perhaps <0194> [It may be.]
cursed <01288> [cursed.]
hearts <03824> [in their hearts.]
practice <06213> [Thus.]
days ................................................... customary <03117> [continually. Heb. all the days.]
day <03117> [Now.]
sons <01121> [the sons.]
came ......... present ......... arrived <0935 03320> [came to.]
Satan <07854> [Satan. Heb. the adversary.]
came ................. arrived among <0935 08432> [came also.]
among <08432> [among them. Heb. in the midst of them.]
Where <0370> [Whence.]
roving about <07751> [From going.]
considered <07760> [considered. Heb. set thy heart on.]
servant <05650> [my servant.]
earth <0776> [none.]
pure <08535> [a perfect.]
upright <03477> [upright.]
fears <03373> [one.]
turns <05493> [escheweth.]
Job <0347> [Doth Job.]
made a hedge <07753> [an hedge.]
around ............. side <01157 05439> [about.]
blessed <01288> [thou hast blessed.]
livestock <04735> [substance. or, cattle.]
But extend <0199 07971> [But put.]
strike <05060> [touch.]
curse ..... face <01288 06440> [and he will curse thee. Heb. if he curse thee not.]
power ....... hand <03027> [Behold.]
power ....... hand <03027> [power. Heb. hand.]
extend <07971> [only.]
Satan ....................... Satan <07854> [So Satan.]
sons <01121> [when.]
messenger <04397> [messenger.]
Sabeans <07614> [Sabeans.]
escaped <04422> [and I only.]
arrived <0935> [there came.]
fire ... God <0784 0430> [The fire of God. or, A great fire.]
Chaldeans <03778> [The Chaldeans.]
raid <06584> [fell. Heb. rushed. I only am.]
arrived <0935> [there came.]
sons <01121> [Thy sons.]
eating <0398> [eating.]
great <01419> [a great.]
across <05676> [from. Heb. from aside, etc. it fell.]
died <04191> [they are dead.]
tore <07167> [rent.]
robe <04598> [mantle. or robe. fell.]
Naked ... came ....... naked <06174 03318> [Naked came.]
Lord gives .... Lord ......... Lord <05414 03068> [the Lord gave.]
takes away <03947> [taken away.]
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
Job <0347> [In all this.]
charge God ... moral impropriety <0430 08604 05414> [charged God foolishly. or, attributed folly to God.]
day <03117> [Again.]
Where <0335> [From whence.]
roving about <07751> [From going.]
considered <07760> [Hast thou.]
upright <03477> [an upright.]
holds firmly <02388> [holdeth.]
stirred ... up <05496> [thou movedst.]
destroy .... reason <01104 02600> [destroy him. Heb. swallow him up.]
reason <02600> [without.]
man <0376> [all that.]
<07971> [put forth.]
curse <01288> [He will curse.]
power <03027> [Behold.]
preserve <08104> [but. or, only. save.]
life <05315> [his life.]
By {naphsho,} "his soul," Maimonides understands "his mind," or intellectual powers.
out <03318> [So went.]
malignant ulcer <07822 07451> [sore boils.]
{Shechin rÆ’,} supposed to be the {Judham,} or black leprosy, of the Arabs, termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks, from its rendering the skin, like that of the elephant, scabrous, dark coloured, and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching.
sole <03709> [from the sole.]
took ... shard <03947 02789> [took him.]
sitting <03427> [he sat.]
wife <0802> [his wife.]
holding firmly <02388> [retain.]
Curse God <01288 0430> [curse God.]
talking ......... do <01696> [Thou speakest.]
one <0259> [as one.]
receive .......... receive <06901> [shall we receive.]
Job <0347> [In all this.]
friends <07453> [friends.]
Temanite <08489> [Temanite.]
Shuhite <07747> [Shuhite.]
had happened ....... came .................... come <0935> [to come.]
console <05162> [to comfort.]
gazed intently ........ recognize .... began <05234 05375> [knew him.]
loudly <06963> [their voice.]
tore <07167> [they rent.]
threw dust <06083 02236> [sprinkled dust upon.]
sat <03427> [they sat.]
seven days ... seven <07651 03117> [seven days.]
spoke <01696> [none spake.]
After <0310> [After.]
opened <06605> [opened.]
cursed <07043> [cursed.]
day <03117> [his day.]
That is, the day of his birth.
up <06030> [spake. Heb. answered.]
day <03117> [Let the day.]
That is, as we say, "Let it be blotted out of the calendar."
darkness <02822> [darkness.]
God .... regard <01875 0433> [God regard.]
deepest shadow <06757> [the shadow.]
Let ........... cloud <01350 06053> [stain it. or, challenge it. let a cloud.]
blackens <03650> [let the blackness. or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day.]
be included .... days <03117 02302> [let it not be joined unto the days. or, let it not rejoice among the days.]
barren <01565> [solitary.]
prepared <06264> [who are ready.]
Leviathan <03882> [their mourning. or, a leviathan.]
wait ... daylight <0216 06960> [look for light.]
first rays ... dawn <06079 07837> [the dawning of the day. Heb. the eye-lids of the morning.]
shut <05462> [it shut not.]
hide <05641> [hid.]
die ................ womb <04191 07358> [died I.]
out <03318> [when I came.]
knees <01290> [the knees.]
peace <05117> [then had I been at rest.]
kings <04428> [kings.]
built <01129> [which built.]
Who erect splendid mausoleums, funeral monuments, etc. to keep their names from perishing, while their bodies are turned to corruption.
filled ... palaces <04390 01004> [who filled their houses.]
That is, "the covetous, whom nothing can satisfy," as the poet Saady has observed, "but the dust that fills his mouth, when laid in the grave."
buried <02934> [an hidden.]
wicked <07563> [the wicked.]
weary <03019> [the weary. Heb. the wearied in strength. at rest.]
hear <08085> [they.]
Small <06996> [The small.]
slave <05650> [and the servant.]
light <0216> [Wherefore.]
light <0216> [light.]
bitter <04751> [the bitter.]
wait <02442> [long. Heb. wait.]
search for <02658> [dig.]
way <01870> [whose way.]
hedged in <05526> [hedged in.]
sighing <0585> [my sighing.]
food <03899> [I eat. Heb. my meat. my roarings.]
very thing <06343> [the thing, etc. Heb. I feared a fear and it came upon me. that which.]
turmoil ... come <07267 0935> [yet trouble came.]
Eliphaz <0464> [Eliphaz.]
Then <06030> [answered.]
word <01697> [to commune. Heb. a word. wilt thou.]
refrain ... speaking <06113 04405> [withhold himself from speaking. Heb. refrain from words.]
instructed <03256> [Behold.]
strengthened <02388> [and thou hast.]
supported <06965> [upholden.]
knees ... gave way <01290 03766> [feeble knees. Heb. bowing knees.]
comes <0935> [it is come.]
discouraged <03811> [thou faintest.]
it strikes <05060> [it toucheth.]
<03374> [thy fear.]
confidence <03690> [thy confidence.]
hope <08615> [thy hope.]
blameless <08537> [the uprightness.]
perished <06> [who ever.]
plow <02790> [they that plow.]
breath <05397> [the blast.]
blast .... anger <0639 07307> [by the breath of his nostrils. that is, by his anger.]
teeth <08127> [the teeth.]
lion <03918> [old lion.]
perishes <06> [perisheth.]
lioness <03833> [the stout.]
word <01697> [a thing.]
secretly .... me <01589> [secretly. Heb. by stealth. a little.]
thoughts <05587> [thoughts.]
deep sleep <08639> [deep sleep.]
terror <06343> [Fear.]
gripped <07122 07461> [came upon. Heb. met. all my bones. Heb. the multitude of my bones.]
breath of air <07307> [a spirit.]
hair <08185> [the hair.]
murmuring <01827> [there, etc. or, I heard a still voice.]
<0582> [Shall mortal.]
man <01397> [shall a man.]
trust <0539> [he put.]
attributes folly .... angels <04397 07760 08417> [and his angels he charged with folly. or, nor in his angels in whom he put light.]
live <07931> [dwell.]
crushed <01792> [crushed.]
destroyed <03807> [destroyed. Heb. beaten in pieces.]
morning <01242> [from morning.]
perish <06> [they perish.]
regarding <07760> [without.]
excess wealth <03499> [excellency.]
die <04191> [die.]
holy ones <06918> [and to which.]
holy ones <06918> [the saints.]
turn <06437> [turn. or, look.]
wrath <03708> [wrath.]
foolish person <0191> [the foolish.]
anger <07068> [envy. or, indignation.]
silly one <06601> [one.]
root <08327> [taking.]
cursed <05344> [cursed.]
children <01121> [children.]
crushed <01792> [they are crushed.]
deliver <05337> [neither.]
harvest <07105> [harvest.]
thorns <06791> [the thorns.]
thirsty <06782> [the robber.]
swallow up <07602> [swalloweth.]
evil <0205> [affliction. or, iniquity. trouble.]
spring <06779> [spring out.]
people <0120> [man.]
trouble <05999> [trouble. or, labour.]
sparks fly <05774 01361 01121> [sparks fly upward. Heb. sons of the burning coal lift up to fly.]
But as for <0199> [seek.]
God .... God <0410 0430> [unto God.]
does <06213> [doeth.]
unsearchable ..... without <0369> [unsearchable. Heb. there is no search.]
marvelous things <06381> [marvellous.]
number <04557> [without number. Heb. till there be no number.]
gives <05414> [giveth.]
fields <02351> [fields. Heb. outplaces.]
sets <07760> [set up.]
lowly ....... mourn <08217 06937> [those.]
raised <07682> [exalted.]
frustrates <06565> [disappointeth.]
hands <03027> [their hands.]
[their enterprise. or, anything.]
catches <03920> [taketh.]
[of the froword.]
meet ... darkness <06298 02822> [meet with. or, run into. darkness.]
saves <03467> [he saveth.]
poor <01800> [the poor.]
iniquity <05766> [and.]
blessed <0835> [happy.]
deliver ... from six <05337 08337> [deliver thee.]
evil <07451> [no evil.]
famine <07458> [famine.]
redeem <06299> [redeem.]
war <04421> [in war.]
power <03027> [the power. Heb. hands.]
protected <02244> [be hid.]
malicious <07752> [from the scourge. or, when the tongue scourgeth. neither.]
laugh at <07832> [laugh.]
afraid <03372> [afraid.]
pact <01285> [thou.]
animals <02416> [beasts.]
know <03045> [thou shalt know.]
home <0168> [thy tabernacle, etc. or, peace is thy tabernacle.]
<06485> [thou shalt visit.]
missing <02398> [sin. or, err.]
descendants <02233> [thy seed.]
numerous <07227> [great. or, much. as the grass.]
full age <03624> [in a full age.]
<05927> [cometh. Heb. ascendeth.]
investigated <02713> [we have searched.]
[for thy good. Heb. for thyself.]
Then ... responded <06030> [answered.]
weighed <08254> [throughly.]
<05375> [laid. Heb. lifted up.]
heavier <03513> [heavier.]
words .... wild <03886 01697> [my words are swallowed up. that is, I want words to express my grief.]
arrows <02671> [the arrows.]
drinks <08354> [drinketh up.]
terrors <01161> [the terrors.]
grass <01877> [when he hath grass. Heb. at grass.]
low <01600> [loweth.]
tasteless <08602> [that which.]
taste <02940> [taste.]
loathsome food <03899 01741> [as my sorrowful meat.]
long <08615> [the thing that I long for. Heb. my expectation.]
willing <02974> [that it would.]
loose <05425> [that he would.]
comfort <05165> [Then.]
rejoice <05539> [I would.]
pitiless <02550> [let him not.]
concealed <03582> [have not concealed.]
Holy One <06918> [the Holy One.]
strength .......... end <03581 07093> [What.]
bronze <05153> [of brass. Heb. brasen.]
help <05833> [Is not my.]
resource <08454> [and is wisdom.]
despair <04523> [To him.]
despair <04523> [is afflicted. Heb. melteth. he forsaketh.]
brothers <0251> [My brethren.]
riverbeds <0650> [as the stream.]
dry up <06789> [vanish. Heb. are cut off. when it is hot they are consumed.]
Heb. in the heat thereof they are extinguished.
Tema <08485> [Tema.]
Sheba <07614> [Sheba.]
distressed <0954> [confounded.]
see <07200> [ye are nothing. or, ye are like to them. Heb. to it.]
see <07200> [nothing. Heb. not. ye see.]
Give ......... gifts <03051 07809> [Bring unto me.]
Deliver me from ........... ransom <06299> [Redeem.]
Teach .......... silent <03384 02790> [Teach me.]
silent <02790> [I will.]
me <0995> [cause me.]
painful <04834> [forcible.]
reproof prove <03198> [what doth.]
criticize <03198> [reprove.]
despairing <02976> [one that.]
wind <07307> [as wind.]
<05307> [overwhelm. Heb. cause to fall upon. the fatherless.]
auction <03738> [ye dig.]
lie .... face <06440 03576> [evident unto you. Heb. before your face. if I lie.]
Relent <07725> [Return.]
righteousness <06664> [my righteousness.]
[in it. that is, in this matter.]
falsehood <05766> [iniquity.]
mouth <02441> [cannot.]
mouth <02441> [taste. Heb. palate.]
service <06635> [Is there.]
service <06635> [an appointed time. or, a warfare.]
days ..... days <03117> [like the days.]
[ernestly desireth. Heb. gapeth after.]
shadow <06738> [the shadow.]
hired man <07916> [as an hireling.]
months ... futility <03391 07723> [months of.]
lie down ....... arise <07901 06965> [When.]
night <06153> [night, etc. Heb. evening be measured. tossings.]
body <01320> [flesh.]
festering <03988> [loathsome.]
swifter <07043> [swifter.]
end ... hope <0657 08615> [without hope.]
Remember <02142> [remember.]
life <02416> [my life.]
again see <07200 07725> [no more see. Heb. not return to see, that is, to enjoy.]
eye .............. eyes <05869> [The eye.]
eye .............. eyes <05869> [thine eyes.]
[I am not. that is, I can live no longer.]
cloud <06051> [the cloud.]
down <03381> [he.]
returns <07725> [shall return.]
refrain <02820> [I will not.]
anguish <06862> [the anguish.]
bitterness <04751> [the bitterness.]
sea <03220> [I a sea.]
creature <08577> [a whale.]
bed <06210> [My bed.]
scare <02865> [thou scarest.]
prefer <0977> [chooseth.]
life <06106> [life. Heb. bones.]
loathe ........ live <03988 02421> [I loathe it.]
alone <02308> [let me alone.]
days <03117> [my days.]
mankind <0582> [What is man.]
make so much <01431> [magnify.]
pay attention <07896 03820> [set thine.]
visit <06485> [visit.]
try <0974> [try.]
<04100> [How long.]
sinned <02398> [I have sinned.]
watcher <05341> [O thou preserver.]
set <07760> [why hast.]
burden <04853> [I am.]
pardon ..... take <05375> [why dost.]
away <05674> [take away.]
lie <07901> [sleep.]
diligently <07836> [in the morning.]
[but I shall not be.]