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Job: How Can I Contend with God?

Job 9:34

In 11 translations

BSB
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
KJV
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
WEB
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
ASV
Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid:
LSV
He turns aside His rod from off me, || And His terror does not make me afraid,
YLT
He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid,
DBY
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,
DRC
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
GNV
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:
JPS
Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;
LXXE
Let him remove his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

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Original-language editions

WLC
יָסֵ֣ר מֵעָלַ֣י שִׁבְט֑וֹ וְ֝אֵמָת֗וֹ אַֽל־תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃
LXX-Br
Ἀπαλλαξάτω ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ τὴν ῥάβδον, ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ μή με στροβείτω,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
  • Job 33:7Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
  • Job 13:11Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
  • Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
  • Job 13:20–22Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You: Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me. Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
  • Job 29:2–25“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness, when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on…
  • Job 37:1“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
  • Psalms 90:11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
  • Job 31:23For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

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