Job’s Reply to Bildad
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My relatives stop coming by,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
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16 and my close friends have forgotten me.
I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
even if I beg him with my own mouth.
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20 even if I beg him with my own mouth.
My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Footnotes:
a.
Job 19:3: Hb obscure
b.
Job 19:4: Lit mistake lives with
c.
Job 19:10: Lit gone
d.
Job 19:12: Lit they raise up their way
e.
Job 19:15: Or The resident aliens in my household
f.
Job 19:17: Lit and the sons of my belly
g.
Job 19:19: Lit of the men of my council
h.
Job 19:25: Or know that my Redeemer is living
i.
Job 19:25: Or earth
j.
Job 19:25: Or dust at the last, or dust as the Last One
k.
Job 19:26: Lit skin which they destroyed, or skin they destroyed in this way
l.
Job 19:26: Or apart from
m.
Job 19:27: Or not a stranger
n.
Job 19:27: Lit My kidneys grow faint
o.
Job 19:28: Some Hb mss, LXX, Vg; other Hb mss read me