Job 5:1–6:30
Septuagint (Brenton) compared with King James Version (Masoretic-derived)
Full reading for Day 219
Job 5:1–6:30 · Psalm 91 (MT: 92) · Proverbs 22:16 · Romans 8:22–39
This Book Has Restored Content
The LXX Job is roughly 1/6 shorter with significant differences in the speeches.
Showing Job 5:1 through 6:30
View
Septuagint (Brenton)
Authoritative text
King James Version
Masoretic-derived · highlighted where altered
1But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
2For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
10who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.
13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18For he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19Six times he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.
19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.
20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.
21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts .
22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.
24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
25And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.
25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.
26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
27Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything [wrong].
27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
1But Job answered and said,
1But Job answered and said,
2Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!
2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
4For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.
4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
5What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has fodder?
5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?
6Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion [to be] loathsome.
7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
8For oh that he would grant [my desire], and my petition might come, and the Lord would grant my hope!
8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.
9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.
10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?
11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
13Or have I not trusted in him? but help is [far] from me.
13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
14Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.
14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
15My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.
15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
16They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice.
16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
17When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.
17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.
18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19Behold the ways of the Thæmanites, ye that mark the paths of the Sabæans.
19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20They too that trust in cities and riches shall come to shame.
20They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
21But ye also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound ye are afraid.
21For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
22What? have I made any demand of you? or do I ask for strength from you,
22Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?
23Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24Teach ye me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me.
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.
25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
26Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.
26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27Even because ye attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.
27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
28But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.
28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.
29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
30For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?
30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?