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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