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Job Prepares His Case

Job 13:20

In 11 translations

BSB
Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
KJV
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
WEB
“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
ASV
Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide myself from thy face:
LSV
Only two things, O God, do with me, || Then I am not hidden from Your face:
YLT
Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
DBY
Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.
DRC
Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:
GNV
But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
JPS
Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:
LXXE
But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אַךְ־שְׁ֭תַּיִם אַל־תַּ֣עַשׂ עִמָּדִ֑י אָ֥ז מִ֝פָּנֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א אֶסָּתֵֽר׃
LXX-Br
Δυεῖν δέ μοι χρήσῃ, τότε ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου οὐ κρυβήσομαι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 139:12even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
  • Revelation 6:15–16Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on…
  • Job 9:34–35Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me. Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.
  • Genesis 3:8–10Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called…

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