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Job Decries His Comforters

Job 16:11

In 11 translations

BSB
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
KJV
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.hath…: Heb. hath shut me up
WEB
God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
ASV
God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
LSV
God shuts me up to the perverse, || And turns me over to the hands of the wicked.
YLT
God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
DBY
God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.El
DRC16:12
God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
GNV
God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
JPS
God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
LXXE
For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

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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
יַסְגִּירֵ֣נִי אֵ֭ל אֶ֣ל עֲוִ֑יל וְעַל־יְדֵ֖י רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִרְטֵֽנִי׃
LXX-Br
Παρέδωκε γάρ με ὁ Κύριος εἰς χείρας ἀδίκων, ἐπὶ δὲ ἀσεβέσιν ἔῤῥιψέ με.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
  • Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
  • Psalms 31:8You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
  • Job 1:13–19One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, the Sabeans…
  • Romans 11:32For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
  • 1 Samuel 24:18And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
  • Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
  • John 19:16Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away.

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  • 16:12 in some Bibles
  • 16:11 in most Bibles

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