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Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity

Job 30:18

In 11 translations

BSB
With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.LXX; Hebrew He becomes like a garment to me or my garment is disfigured
KJV
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
WEB
My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
ASV
By God’s great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
LSV
By the abundance of power, || Is my clothing changed, || As the mouth of my coat it girds me.
YLT
By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
DBY
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
DRC
With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
GNV
For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.
JPS
By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured; it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
LXXE
With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

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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
בְּרָב־כֹּ֭חַ יִתְחַפֵּ֣שׂ לְבוּשִׁ֑י כְּפִ֖י כֻתָּנְתִּ֣י יַֽאַזְרֵֽנִי׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
LXX-Br
Ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύϊ ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς, ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχε με.

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◆ Job's Trial

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
  • 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.
  • Job 19:20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  • Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
  • Isaiah 1:5–6Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and…

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