Job’s Reply to Eliphaz
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If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.
5 I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.
Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.(C)
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.(C)
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Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
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8 and if I hold back, what have I lost?
You have shriveled me up(c)—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9 My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
His anger tears at me, and He harasses(D) me.
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
10 He gnashes His teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;(E)
they join themselves together against me.
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12 and strike my cheeks with contempt;(E)
they join themselves together against me.
I was at ease, but He shattered me;
He seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as His target;(F)
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14 He seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as His target;(F)
Footnotes:
a.
Job 16:3: Lit windy; Jb 15:2
b.
Job 16:7: Or it
c.
Job 16:8: Or have seized me; Hb obscure
d.
Job 16:11: LXX, Vg; MT reads to a boy
e.
Job 16:13: Or arrows
f.
Job 16:14: Lit through me, breach on breach
g.
Job 16:15: Lit horn