Job 15:1--21:34
Eliphaz <0464> [Eliphaz.]
wise <02450> [a wise man.]
blustery knowledge <07307 01847> [vain knowledge. Heb. knowledge of wind.]
fill <04390> [fill.]
argue <03198> [he reason.]
break off <06565> [castest off. Heb. makest void.]
hinder <01639> [restrainest.]
meditation <07881> [prayer. or, speech.]
inspires <0502> [uttereth. Heb. teacheth.]
choose <0977> [thou choosest.]
mouth <06310> [own mouth.]
mouth ........ lips <06310 08193> [thine own.]
first <07223> [the first.]
forth <02342> [or wast thou.]
secret <05475> [the secret.]
limit <01639> [thou restrain.]
know <03045> [knowest.]
gray-haired <07867> [the gray-headed.]
consolations <08575> [the consolations.]
gentleness <0328> [is there.]
heart <03820> [thine heart.]
eyes <05869> [thy eyes.]
turn <07725> [turnest.]
words <04405> [and lettest.]
man <0582> [is man.]
trust <0539> [he putteth.]
abominable <08581> [How much.]
Rather, "How much less {aph kee,} abominable and filthy man," who, under the influence of sinful propensities, commits sin as greedily as a thirsty man or camel drinks down water.
abominable <08581> [abominable.]
drinks <08354> [drinketh.]
listen ........ seen <08085 02372> [hear me.]
ancestors <01> [from their.]
land <0776> [Unto whom.]
torment <02342> [travaileth.]
number <04557> [the number.]
Terrifying sounds <06963 06343> [dreadful sound. Heb. sound of fears.]
peace <07965> [in prosperity.]
marauders <07703> [the destroyer.]
expect ... escape <0539 07725> [He believeth not.]
marked <06822> [and he is.]
wanders <05074> [wandereth.]
day <03117> [the day.]
anguish <04691> [anguish.]
king <04428> [as a king.]
stretches <05186> [he stretcheth.]
vaunts <01396> [strengtheneth.]
<07323> [runneth.]
<06677> [even on.]
covered <03680> [he covereth.]
ruined <03582> [desolate.]
ready to crumble <06257> [which are ready.]
wealth ......... spread <02428 05186> [neither shall.]
escape ............. depart <05493> [depart.]
flame <07957> [the flame.]
breath <07307> [by the breath.]
deceiving <08582> [not him.]
trust <0539> [trust.]
worthless ..... worthlessness <07723> [for vanity.]
full <04390> [accomplished. or, cut off.]
branches <03712> [and his branch.]
<02554> [shake off.]
grapes <07993> [and.]
company <05712> [the congregation.]
tents <0168> [the tabernacles.]
conceive <02029> [conceive.]
evil <0205> [vanity. or, iniquity.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
miserable <05999> [miserable. or, troublesome.]
windy words <01697 07307> [vain words. Heb. words of wind.]
provokes <04834> [what emboldeneth.]
if ..... my ..... pile <05315 03863> [if your soul.]
pile ... words <04405 02266> [up words.]
head <05128 07218> [shake mine.]
strengthen <0553> [But I would.]
pain <03511> [my grief.]
goes away <01980> [what am I eased. Heb. what goeth from me.]
worn <03811> [he hath.]
devastated <08074> [hast made.]
seized <07059> [And thou hast, etc.]
Some render, "thou has fettered me," as {kamat} signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.
witness <05707> [is a witness.]
leanness <03585> [my leanness.]
anger ... torn <02963 0639> [teareth me.]
gnashed <02786> [he gnasheth.]
adversary <06862> [mine.]
opened <06473> [gaped.]
struck <05221> [they have smitten.]
unite <04390> [gathered.]
abandons .... evil men <05462 05760> [delivered me. Heb. shut me up.]
evil men <05760> [to the ungodly.]
throws <03399> [turned.]
peace <07961> [at ease.]
shattered <06565> [broken me.]
neck <06203> [by my neck.]
crushed <06327> [shaken.]
made <06965> [set me up.]
archers <07228> [archers.]
pierces <06398> [he cleaveth.]
pity <02550> [doth.]
pours out <08210> [poureth.]
breaks through <06555> [breaketh.]
rushes <07323> [runneth.]
sewed <08609> [sewed.]
buried ... horn <07161 05953> [defiled my horn.]
face <06440> [face.]
eyelids <06079> [on my eyelids.]
violence <02555> [Not for.]
prayer <08605> [my prayer.]
earth <0776> [O earth.]
cover ... blood <03680 01818> [cover not.]
cry <02201> [let my cry.]
witness <05707> [my witness.]
high <04791> [on high. Heb. in the high places.]
[scorn me. Heb. are my scorners.]
pour out <01811> [poureth.]
contends <03198> [plead.]
man <01121> [neighbour. or, friend.]
years ... lie .... few <08141 04557> [a few years. Heb. years of number.]
return <07725> [whence.]
spirit ... broken <02254 07307> [breath is corrupt. or, spirit is spent.]
days <03117> [my days.]
grave <06913> [the graves.]
mockery <02049> [mockers.]
<03885> [continue. Heb. lodge.]
<04784> [provocation.]
pledge <06148> [put me.]
security <08628> [strike.]
denounces <05046> [He that.]
eyes <05869> [the eyes.]
byword <04914> [a by-word.]
face <06440> [aforetime. or, before them. as a tabret.]
eyes <05869> [Mine eye.]
frame <03338> [members. or, thoughts.]
shadow <06738> [shadow.]
appalled <08074> [astonied.]
troubled <05782> [stir up.]
holds .... way <0270 01870> [hold on.]
<02890> [clean.]
grows stronger <0555 03254> [be stronger and stronger. Heb. add strength.]
turn <07725> [do ye return.]
find <04672> [for I.]
days <03117> [My days.]
<02154> [purposes.]
desires <04180> [thoughts. Heb. possessions.]
<07760> [change.]
near <07138> [short. Heb. near.]
hope <06960> [If I wait.]
grave <07585> [the grave.]
spread <07502> [I have made.]
cry <07121> [said. Heb. cried, or, called. corruption.]
worm <07415> [to the worm.]
hope .... hope <08615> [my hope.]
barred gates of death <07585 0905> [the bars of the pit.]
descend <05183> [rest.]
Bildad <01085> [Bildad.]
until <05704> [How long.]
consider <0995> [mark.]
regarded <02803> [Wherefore.]
tear ... to pieces <02963> [teareth.]
yourself ..... your <05315> [himself. Heb. his soul. shall the.]
rock <06697> [the rock.]
lamp <0216> [the light.]
flame <07632> [spark.]
lamp <05216> [candle. or, lamp.]
steps <06806> [steps.]
counsel <06098> [his own.]
has <07971> [he is cast.]
trap <06341> [The gin.]
snare <06782> [robber.]
rope <02256> [snare.]
hidden <02934> [laid. Heb. hidden.]
Terrors <01091> [Terrors.]
step <06327 07272> [drive him. Heb. scatter him. to his feet.]
hungry <07457> [hunger-bitten.]
misfortune <0343> [destruction.]
parts ........... limbs <0905> [strength. Heb. bars.]
terrible <01060> [the firstborn.]
security <04009> [confidence.]
king <04428> [the king.]
resides in <07931> [dwell.]
<01097> [because.]
sulfur <01614> [brimstone.]
roots <08328> [roots.]
branches <07105> [shall his branch.]
driven from <01920> [He shall be driven. Heb. They shall drive him.]
banished <05074> [chased.]
children <05209> [neither.]
survivor <08300> [nor any.]
appalled <08074> [astonied.]
fate <03117> [his day.]
east <06931> [went. or, lived with him. were affrighted. Heb. laid hold on horror.]
residence <04908> [such are.]
known <03045> [knoweth.]
torment <03013> [How long.]
torment <03013> [vex.]
crush ..... words <01792 04405> [break me.]
ten times <06471 06235> [ten times.]
reproaching <03637> [ye reproached.]
attack <01970> [make yourselves strange to me. or, harden yourselves against me.]
erred <07686> [I have erred.]
error <04879> [mine.]
plead <01431> [magnify.]
plead <03198> [plead.]
God <0433> [God.]
encircled <05362> [compassed.]
cry out ........ cry for help <06817 07768> [I cry.]
Violence <02555> [wrong. or, violence. no judgment.]
blocked <01443> [fenced.]
set <07760> [set.]
stripped <06584> [stripped.]
tears ... down <05422> [destroyed.]
<03212> [I am gone.]
hope <08615> [mine hope.]
burns <02734> [kindled.]
against ..... considers <02803> [he counteth.]
troops <01416> [His.]
throw up <05549> [raise.]
relatives far <0251 07368> [put my brethren.]
acquaintances <02114> [estranged.]
failed <07138> [kinsfolk.]
friends <03045> [familiar.]
guests <01481> [dwell.]
consider .... stranger <02803 02114> [count me.]
servant <05650> [my servant.]
breath <07307> [breath.]
brothers <0990> [body. Heb. belly.]
youngsters <05759> [Yea.]
youngsters <05759> [young children. or, the wicked.]
closest friends <04962 05475> [my inward friends. Heb. the men of my secret.]
love <0157> [they whom.]
bones <06106> [bone.]
flesh <01320> [and to. or, as. and I am.]
pity ...... have pity on me <02603> [have pity.]
hand <03027> [the hand.]
pursue <07291> [persecute.]
satiated <07646> [and are not.]
that ....... O <05414> [Oh. Heb. Who will give, etc. my words.]
that ....... O ..... written <05414 02710> [oh that they were.]
Rather, "Oh that they were described {yuchakoo} in a book, with an iron stile and lead! Were graven on a rock for ever!" Pliny observes, "At first men wrote on palm leaves, and afterwards on the bark or rind of other trees. In process of time, public monuments were written on rolls of lead ({plumbeis voluminibus}); and those of a private nature on linen books, or tables covered with wax."
engraved <02672> [graven.]
know <03045> [I know.]
stand <06965> [he shall.]
after <0310> [And though, etc.]
Or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God.
flesh <01320> [in my flesh.]
see <02372> [I shall.]
another <02114> [another. Heb. a stranger. though my reins, etc. or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire [for that day.]]
[within me. Heb. in my bosom.]
pursue <07291> [Why.]
root <08328> [seeing, etc. or, and what root of matter is found in me? the root.]
[in me.]
Instead of {bee,} "in me," {bo,} "in him," is the reading of more than 100 MSS.
Fear <01481> [ye afraid.]
know <03045> [that ye may.]
Zophar <06691> [Zophar.]
thoughts <05587> [my thoughts.]
feelings <02363> [and for.]
feelings <02363> [I make haste. Heb. my haste is in me.]
reproof <04148> [the check.]
<07307> [the spirit.]
ever <05703> [thou not.]
humankind <0120> [man.]
elation <07445> [the triumphing.]
brief <07138> [short. Heb. from near. the joy.]
stature <07863> [his excellency.]
clouds <05645> [clouds. Heb. cloud.]
perish <06> [perish.]
say <0559> [shall say.]
flies <05774> [fly away.]
People <05869> [The eye.]
sons <01121> [His children, etc. or, The poor shall oppress his children.]
recompense <07521> [seek.]
hands <03027> [his hands.]
bones <06106> [bones.]
lie <07901> [which shall lie.]
evil <07451> [wickedness.]
is ........ hides <03582> [he hide.]
retains ........ let it go <02550 05800> [spare it.]
in ... mouth <08432 02441> [within his mouth. Heb. in the midst of his palate.]
food <03899> [his meat.]
sour <04846> [the gall.]
<01104> [swallowed.]
poison <07219> [the poison.]
viper <0660> [the viper's.]
look <07200> [shall not see.]
torrents <06390> [the rivers.]
rivers <05104> [floods. or, streaming brooks. of honey.]
gives back <07725> [shall he restore.]
assimilating <01104> [swallow.]
commerce <02428> [his substance. Heb. the substance of his exchange. and he shall.]
oppressed ......... seized <07533 01497> [Because.]
oppressed <07533> [oppressed. Heb. crushed.]
seized <01497> [he hath violently.]
knows <03045> [Surely.]
knows <03045> [feel. Heb. know.]
left ..... devour <08300 0400> [none of his meat be left. or, be none left for his meat.]
fullness <04390> [the fulness.]
force <03027> [every hand.]
misery <06001> [wicked. or, troublesome.]
filling <04390> [he is about.]
rains down ... blows <04305 03894> [rain it.]
flees .... iron <01272 01270> [flee from.]
bow <07198> [the bow.]
If ............... pierces <02498> [strike him.]
pulls <08025> [drawn.]
terrors <0367> [terrors.]
darkness <02822> [darkness.]
fire <0784> [a fire.]
devour <03415> [it shall go.]
heavens <08064> [heaven.]
earth <0776> [earth.]
flood <02981> [increase.]
rushing waters <05064> [and his goods.]
<02506> [the portion.]
appointment ... God <0561 0410> [appointed unto him by God. Heb. of his decree from God.]
Listen carefully <08085> [Hear.]
consolation <08575> [let this be.]
speak ...... spoken <01696> [that I may.]
mock <03932> [mock on.]
complaint <07879> [is my complaint.]
impatient <07307> [if it were.]
impatient <07114> [troubled. Heb. shortened.]
Look ...... appalled <06437 08074> [Mark me. Heb. Look unto me. be astonished.]
put ... hands <07760 03027> [lay your.]
think <02142> [Even when.]
wicked <07563> [Wherefore.]
increase <01396> [mighty.]
safe .... fear <06343 07965> [safe from fear. Heb. peace from fear.]
rod <07626> [the rod.]
cows <06510> [their cow.]
<03615> [They.]
prosperity <02896> [wealth. or, mirth.]
say <0559> [they say.]
want <02654> [for we.]
Almighty <07706> [What is.]
gain <03276> [and what.]
pray <06293> [if we.]
prosperity <02898> [Lo.]
counsel <06098> [the counsel.]
lamp ........... come <05216 0935> [oft.]
lamp <05216> [candle. or, lamp. distributeth.]
straw <08401> [as stubble.]
<01589> [carrieth. Heb. stealeth.]
stores <06845> [layeth.]
man's <0205> [iniquity. that is, the punishment of his iniquity.]
children <01121> [for his.]
repay <07999> [he rewardeth.]
know <03045> [he shall.]
see <07200> [see.]
drink <08354> [drink.]
interest <02656> [For what.]
number <04557> [the number.]
teach <03925> [teach.]
judges <08199> [he judgeth.]
full vigor <08537 06106> [in his full strength. Heb. in his very perfection. or, the strength of his perfection.]
body <05845> [His breasts. or, His milk pails.]
moist <08248> [moistened.]
bitterness <04751> [in the bitterness.]
tasted <0398> [never.]
Together <03162> [alike.]
worms <07415> [the worms.]
know <03045> [I know.]
wrong <02554> [ye wrongfully.]
house ....... in which .... lived <01004 04908> [Where.]
tents in which .... lived <0168 04908> [dwelling places. Heb. tent of the tabernacles.]
travel ... roads <05674 01870> [go by.]
evil <07451> [the wicked.]
day ........... day <03117> [day.]
wrath <05678> [wrath. Heb. wraths.]
denounces <05046> [declare.]
repays <07999> [repay.]
carried <02986> [he be.]
tombs <06913> [grave. Heb. graves. remain in the tomb. Heb. watch in the heap.]
sweet <04985> [sweet.]
everybody <0120> [every man.]
console <05162> [comfort.]
answers <08666> [seeing.]
deception <04604> [falsehood. Heb. transgression.]
