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Job 30
Septuagint (Brenton, 1851) 30 compared with King James Version 30
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13My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.
13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15My pains return upon [me]; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.
15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment : it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion is in dust and ashes.
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not : but they stood still, and observed me .
20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
21They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand .
21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.
22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
23For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.
23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26But I , when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.