Verse 16
Job 19:16
Young's Literal Translation
16
To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְ/עַבְדִּ֣/י קָ֭רָאתִי וְ/לֹ֣א יַעֲנֶ֑ה בְּמוֹ פִ֝֗/י אֶתְחַנֶּן לֽ/וֹ
English Translation
I called to my servant, and he did not answer; with my mouth I will plead for him.
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Chapter 19 Context
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And Job answereth and saith: --
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Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
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These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --
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And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
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If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
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Know now, that God (Elohim) turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
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Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
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My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
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Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
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He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
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And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
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Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my te...
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My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
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Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
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Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
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To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
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My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.
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Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
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Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
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To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
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Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God (Elohim) hath stricken against me.
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Why do you pursue me as God (Elohim)? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
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Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
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With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
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That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
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And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God (Elohim):
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Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my rei...
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But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.
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Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know...
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