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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Job 6:18

In 11 translations

BSB
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
KJV
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
WEB
The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.
ASV
The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
LSV
The paths turn aside of their way, || They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
YLT
Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
DBY
They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
DRC
The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.
GNV
Or they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish.
JPS
The paths of their way do wind, they go up into the waste, and are lost.
LXXE
Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּ אָרְח֣וֹת דַּרְכָּ֑ם יַעֲל֖וּ בַתֹּ֣הוּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃
LXX-Br
οὕτω κᾀγὼ κατελείφηθν ὑπὸ πάντων, ἀπωλόμην δὲ καὶ ἔξοικος ἐγενόμην.

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