Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just
Job 6:21
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.
- KJV
- For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.ye are…: or, ye are like to them: Heb. to itnothing: Heb. not
- WEB
- For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
- ASV
- For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
- LSV
- Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.
- YLT
- Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
- DBY
- So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.
- DRC
- Now you are come: and now seeing my affliction you are afraid.
- GNV
- Surely nowe are ye like vnto it: ye haue seene my fearefull plague, and are afraide.
- JPS
- For now ye are become His; ye see a terror, and are afraid.
- LXXE
- But ye also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound ye are afraid.
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- Written (Ketiv): לֹא (“not”). Read aloud (Qere): ל֑וֹ (“into it”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads לֹ֑א; read aloud (Qere) reads ל֑וֹ (“into it”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה הֱיִ֣יתֶם לא תִּֽרְא֥וּ חֲ֝תַ֗ת וַתִּירָֽאוּ׃Read aloud as (qere): ל֑וֹ
- LXX-Br
- Ἀτὰρ δὲ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐπέβητέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως, ὥστε ἰδόντες τὸ ἐμὸν τραῦμα φοβήθητε.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 38:11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
- 2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
- Jeremiah 17:5–6This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD. He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He…
- Jeremiah 51:9“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
- Job 6:15But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
- Job 2:11–13Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and…
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Proverbs 19:7All the brothers of a poor man hate him— how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- Matthew 26:56But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
- Revelation 18:9–10Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. In fear of her torment, they will stand at a…
- Revelation 18:17–18For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising…
- Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
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