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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Job 6:10

In 11 translations

BSB
It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
KJV
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
WEB
Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
ASV
And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
LSV
And yet it is my comfort || (And I exult in pain—He does not spare), || That I have not hidden || The sayings of the Holy One.
YLT
And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain — He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
DBY
Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
DRC
And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy One.
GNV
Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.
JPS
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would exult in pain, though He spare not; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
LXXE
Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּ֥תְהִי ע֨וֹד ׀ נֶ֘חָ֤מָתִ֗י וַאֲסַלְּדָ֣ה בְ֭חִילָה לֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל כִּי־לֹ֥א כִ֝חַ֗דְתִּי אִמְרֵ֥י קָדֽוֹשׁ׃
LXX-Br
Εἴη δέ μου πόλις τάφος, ἐφʼ ἧς ἐπὶ τειχέων ἡλλόμην, ἐπʼ αὐτῆς οὐ φείσομαι· οὐ γὰρ ἐψευσάμην ῥήματα ἅγια Θεοῦ μου.

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  • Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
  • Leviticus 19:2“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
  • Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive…
  • Psalms 40:9–10I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know. I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not…
  • Psalms 71:17–18O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds. Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who…
  • Isaiah 30:11–12Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!” Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
  • Revelation 4:8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
  • 1 Samuel 2:2There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
  • Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
  • Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
  • Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
  • 2 Peter 2:4–5For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its…
  • Acts 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
  • Psalms 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
  • Hosea 11:9I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man— the Holy One among you— and I will not come in wrath.
  • Job 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

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