Job’s Friends Are No Help
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“Oh that my request might come to pass,
And that God would grant my longing!
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12 And that God would grant my longing!
“Is my strength the strength of stones,
Or is my flesh bronze?
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Or is my flesh bronze?
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“Have I said, ‘Give me something,’
Or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth,’
23 Or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth,’
Or, ‘Deliver me from the hand of the adversary,’
Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the tyrants’?
Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the tyrants’?
Footnotes:
a.
Job 6:1: ['Lit ', answered and said]
b.
Job 6:4: ['Lit ', Whose]
c.
Job 6:6: ['Heb ', hallamuth, ', meaning uncertain. Perhaps the juice of a plant']
d.
Job 6:10: ['Lit ', hidden]
e.
Job 6:11: ['Lit ', prolong my soul]
f.
Job 6:13: ['So ancient versions']
g.
Job 6:14: ['Or ', reverence]
h.
Job 6:15: ['Or ', brooks]
i.
Job 6:15: ['Or ', brooks]
j.
Job 6:16: ['Lit ', hides itself]
k.
Job 6:17: ['Or ', cease]
l.
Job 6:18: ['Or ', caravans turn from their course, they go up into the waste and perish]
m.
Job 6:20: ['Lit ', ashamed]
n.
Job 6:30: ['Or ', words]
Cross references:
F.
Job 6:5:
Job 39:5-8
T.
Job 6:21:
Psalm 38:11
U.
Job 6:24:
Psalm 39:1
Y.
Job 6:27:
2 Peter 2:3