Verse 6
Job 19:6
American Standard Version
6
Know now that God (Elohim) hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.
Original Language Text
hebrew
דְּֽעוּ אֵ֭פוֹ כִּי אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑/נִי וּ֝/מְצוּד֗/וֹ עָלַ֥/י הִקִּֽיף
English Translation
Know my God that I am ensnared and surrounded by a trap.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 19 Context
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Then Job answered and said,
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How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
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These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
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And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
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Know now that God (Elohim) hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
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He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.
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His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
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My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sig...
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I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth.
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My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
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Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
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All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God (Elohim) hath touched me.
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Why do ye persecute me as God (Elohim), And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
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But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
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And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God (Elohim);
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Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart i...
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If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
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Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there...
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