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Elihu Describes God’s Power

Job 36:8

In 11 translations

BSB
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
KJV
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
WEB
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
ASV
And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;
LSV
And if prisoners in chains || They are captured with cords of affliction,
YLT
And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
DBY
And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
DRC
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:
GNV
And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,
JPS
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
LXXE
But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאִם־אֲסוּרִ֥ים בַּזִּקִּ֑ים יִ֝לָּכְד֗וּן בְּחַבְלֵי־עֹֽנִי׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οἱ πεπεδημένοι ἐν χειροπέδαις, συσχεθήσονται ἐν σχοινίοις πενίας.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
  • Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
  • Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
  • Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
  • Psalms 18:5The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
  • Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
  • Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
  • Job 33:18–19to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword. A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

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