Job 2:1--13:21
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.]
Bildad <01085> [Bildad.]
words <0561> [How long.]
words <0561> [the words.]
God <0410> [God.]
Almighty <07706> [Almighty.]
gave <07971> [he have cast.]
penalty .... sin <03027 06588> [for their transgression. Heb. in the hand of their transgression.]
look <07836> [thou wouldest.]
pure <02134> [thou wert.]
rouse <05782> [he would.]
abode <05116> [make.]
beginning <07225> [thy beginning.]
future <0319> [thy latter.]
inquire <07592> [enquire.]
yesterday <08543> [we are but.]
days <03117> [nothing. Heb. not.]
instruct <03384> [Shall not.]
bring forth words from <04405 03318> [utter words.]
papyrus plant <01573> [the rush.]
forget God <0410 07911> [that forget God.]
godless <02611> [the hypocrite's.]
web <01004> [web. Heb. house.]
up ... takes <05975> [it shall not stand.]
well-watered <07373> [green.]
shoots <03127> [his branch.]
roots <08328> [roots.]
uprooted <01104> [he.]
joy <04885> [this is the joy.]
earth <06083> [out of the earth.]
God <0410> [God.]
grasp ...... evildoers <07489 02388> [help the evil doers. Heb. take the ungodly by the hand.]
fill <04390> [he fill.]
gladness <08643> [rejoicing. Heb. shouting for joy.]
clothed <03847> [clothed.]
no <0369> [come to nought. Heb. not be.]
<0582> [how.]
God <0410> [with. or, before.]
wishes ... contend <07378 02654> [he will contend.]
answer <06030> [he cannot.]
wise ... heart <03824 02450> [wise in heart.]
resisted <07185> [who hath hardened.]
removes <06275> [removeth.]
overturns <02015> [which overturneth.]
shakes <07264> [shaketh.]
pillars <05982> [the pillars.]
commands <0559> [commandeth.]
seals <02856> [sealeth.]
spreads out <05186> [Which.]
treads <01869> [treadeth.]
waves <01116> [waves. Heb. heights.]
makes <06213> [maketh.]
Bear Orion .... Pleiades <05906 03685 03598> [Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades. Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah. the chambers.]
great .... things <01419> [great things.]
wonderful things <06381> [wonders.]
passes <05674> [he goeth.]
snatches <02862> [he taketh.]
back ..... say <07725 0559> [hinder him. Heb. turn him away.]
doing <06213> [What.]
him ... helpers ... Rahab <07293 05826> [the proud helpers. Heb. the helpers of pride, or strength.]
answer <06030> [How much.]
answer <06030> [shall I.]
choose <0977> [choose.]
innocent <06663> [though.]
mercy <02603> [I would.]
judge <08199> [my judge.]
summoned <07121> [If I had.]
believe <0539> [would I.]
crushes <07779> [For he.]
multiplies <07235> [multiplieth.]
reason <02600> [without cause.]
allow <05414> [will not.]
fills .... bitterness <07646 04472> [filleth me.]
strong one <0533> [he is strong.]
summon <03259> [who shall.]
innocent <06663> [justify.]
mouth <06310> [mine.]
blameless <08535> [I am perfect.]
perverse <06140> [it shall.]
know <03045> [yet would.]
despise <03988> [I would.]
destroys <03615> [He destroyeth.]
scourge <07752> [If the.]
mocks <03932> [he will.]
land <0776> [earth.]
covers <03680> [he covereth.]
then <0645> [if not.]
swifter <07043> [swifter.]
runner <07323> [a post.]
{Rotz,} a runner, or courier; some of whom are said to go 150 miles in less than 24 hours.
speed <01272> [they flee away.]
reed boats <0591 016> [swift ships. Heb. ships of desire, or, ships of Ebeh. as the eagle.]
dread <03025> [afraid.]
know <03045> [I know.]
plunge <02881> [shalt.]
clothes <08008> [mine.]
abhor <08581> [abhor me. or, make me to be abhorred.]
human <0376> [not a man.]
come <0935> [we should.]
is there ...... who <03426 03198> [is there.]
who <03198> [daysman. Heb. one that should argue, or, umpire. that might.]
terror <0367> [let not.]
[but it is not so with me. Heb. but I am not so with myself.]
life ............... soul <05315> [My soul.]
weary <05354 02416> [is weary of my life. or, cut off while I live. I will leave.]
speak <01696> [I will speak.]
condemn <07561> [Do not.]
tell ...... contending <03045 07378> [shew me.]
<02895> [Is it good.]
despise <03988> [despise.]
work <03018> [the work. Heb. the labour.]
smile .... schemes <03313 06098> [shine upon.]
see .... human ... sees <07200 0582> [seest thou.]
know <01847> [Thou knowest. Heb. It is upon thy knowledge.]
deliver <05337> [and there.]
hands <03027> [hands.]
shaped .... made <06087 06213> [have made me. Heb. took pains about me. yet thou.]
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
made <06213> [thou hast.]
return .... dust <07725 06083> [into dust again.]
<05413> [poured.]
clothed <03847> [clothed.]
<07753> [fenced. Heb. hedged.]
life ... favor <02617 02416> [life and favour.]
concealed <06845> [hid.]
know <03045> [I know.]
watch <08104> [then.]
acquit <05352> [thou wilt.]
guilty <07561> [If I be wicked.]
innocent <06663> [righteous.]
<07649> [I am full.]
<07202> [see.]
hunt <06679> [Thou huntest.]
display ... power <06381> [marvellous.]
witnesses <05707> [witnesses. that is, plagues.]
relief <02487> [changes.]
I am as if attacked by successive troops; if one company be wearied, another succeeds to the attack.
troops <06635> [war.]
out <03318> [hast thou.]
died <01478> [given up.]
days few ............. little <04592 03117> [my days few.]
Cease <02308> [cease.]
return <03212 07725> [I go whence.]
land <0776> [the land.]
deepest shadow <06757> [the shadow.]
deepest shadow <06757> [the shadow of death.]
Where death projects his shadow, intercepting the light of life: without any order, having no arrangement, no distinction of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the king and the beggar, their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace: where the light is as darkness, a palpable obscure, space and place, with only such a light or capability of distinction, as renders "darkness visible."
Zophar <06691> [Zophar.]
abundance <07230> [the multitude.]
talkative <08193> [full of talk. Heb. of lips.]
idle talk <0907> [thy lies. or, thy devices.]
mock <03932> [mockest.]
rebuke <03637> [make thee.]
said <0559> [For thou.]
pure <01249> [I am clean.]
reveal ..... secrets <05046 08587> [shew thee.]
God ... forgiven <05382 0433> [God exacteth.]
discover ... essence ...... find out <02714 04672> [Canst.]
higher .... heavens <01363 08064> [It is as high as heaven. Heb. the heights of heaven.]
deeper <06013> [deeper.]
longer <0752> [longer.]
confines <02498> [If he cut off. or, If he make a change.]
<05462> [shut up.]
prevent <07725> [hinder him. Heb. turn him away.]
knows <03045> [he knoweth.]
sees <07200> [he seeth.]
empty <05014> [For vain. Heb. For empty.]
become wise <03823> [would.]
man ........... born ... human being <0376 0120 03205> [man be.]
wild donkey's <06501> [a wild.]
<03559> [prepare.]
stretch <06566> [stretch.]
iniquity <0205> [iniquity.]
far <07368> [put it far.]
evil <05766> [let not.]
lift <05375> [lift up.]
securely <03332> [thou shalt be.]
forget <07911> [Because.]
water <04325> [as waters.]
life <02465> [age.]
brighter .... noonday <06965 06672> [be clearer than. Heb. arise above, etc. thou shalt.]
is <03426> [because.]
take ... rest <07901> [thou shalt take.]
many <07227> [many.]
seek <06440 02470> [make suit unto thee. Heb. intreat thy face.]
eyes <05869> [the eyes.]
eludes <06> [they shall not escape. Heb. flight shall perish from them.]
hope <08615> [their hope.]
breathe their last <05315 04646> [the giving up of the ghost. or, a puff of breath.]
people <05971> [ye are the people.]
also ... understanding <01571 03824> [But I have.]
understanding <03824> [understanding. Heb. an heart. I am not inferior to you.]
Heb. I fall not lower than you. who knoweth not such things as these. Heb. with whom are not such as these.
laughingstock ..................... laughingstock <07814> [one mocked.]
called <07121> [calleth.]
righteous <06662> [the just.]
fate <03559> [ready.]
calamity <03940> [a lamp.]
fortunate <07600> [of him.]
tents <0168> [tabernacles.]
But now ask <0199 07592> [But ask.]
know <03045> [Who.]
hand <03027> [the hand.]
hand <03027> [whose hand.]
life <05315> [soul. or, life. the breath.]
<0376> [mankind. Heb. flesh of man.]
ear <0241> [Doth.]
tongue <02441> [mouth. Heb. palate.]
wisdom <02451> [him. that is, God.]
wisdom <02451> [wisdom.]
counsel <06098> [counsel.]
tears <02040> [he breaketh.]
imprisons <05462> [he shutteth.]
imprisons <05462> [up. Heb. upon.]
holds <06113> [Behold.]
then ....... releases <07971> [he sendeth.]
strength <05797> [With.]
one who goes astray <07683> [the deceived.]
trusted .... speech <08193 0539> [the speech of the trusty. Heb. the lip of the faithful.]
takes <03947> [taketh.]
pours <08210> [poureth.]
[weakened the strength of the mighty. or, looseth the girdle of the strong.]
reveals <01540> [discovereth.]
brings <03318> [bringeth.]
makes ... great <07679> [increaseth.]
disperses <05148> [straiteneth them again. Heb. leadeth in.]
deprives <05493> [He taketh.]
wander <08582> [and causeth.]
desert waste <08414> [in a wilderness]
{Bethohoo,} "in chaos," i.e., in a state of utter confusion; it is the same word which is employed in Ge 1:2, to describe the chaotic state of the earth at the creation.
grope <04959> [grope.]
stagger <08582> [maketh.]
stagger <08582> [stagger. Heb. wander.]
eyes <05869> [Lo.]
ears <0241> [ear.]
But <0199> [Surely.]
desire <02654> [I desire.]
inventors <02950> [ye are forgers.]
physicians <07495> [physicians.]
[Oh that ye.]
wisdom <02451> [and it.]
out ...... examine <02713> [search.]
<0582> [as one.]
would certainly rebuke <03198> [reprove.]
splendor <07613> [Shall.]
fear <06343> [his dread.]
maxims <02146> [remembrances.]
ashes <0665> [ashes.]
defenses ... defenses <01354> [to bodies.]
Refrain <02790> [Hold your peace. Heb. Be silent from me. let me.]
let <05674> [and let come.]
<05375> [I take.]
<07760> [and put.]
slays ..... hope <06991 03176> [he slay me.]
defend <03198> [but I will.]
defend <03198> [maintain. Heb. prove, or argue.]
deliverance <03444> [my salvation.]
godless <02611> [for an hypocrite.]
prepared <06186> [I have ordered.]
know <03045> [I know.]
contend <07378> [that will plead.]
silent <02790> [if I hold.]
two <08147 06213> [do not two.]
hide .... face <05641 06440> [hide myself.]
far <07368> [Withdraw.]
terror <0367> [let not.]
