Verse 28
Job 6:28
Literal Standard Version
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And now, please, look on me, || Even to your face do I lie?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ֭/עַתָּה הוֹאִ֣ילוּ פְנוּ בִ֑/י וְ/עַל פְּ֝נֵי/כֶ֗ם אִם אֲכַזֵּֽב
English Translation
And now, if I turn away and lie before you.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 6 Context
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And Job answers and says:
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“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up...
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For now it is heavier than the sands of the sea, || Therefore my words have been rash.
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For arrows of the Mighty are with me, || Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God (Eloh...
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Does a wild donkey bray over tender grass? Does an ox low over his provender?
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Is an insipid thing eaten without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
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My soul is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food.
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O that my request may come, || That God (Elohim) may grant my hope!
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That God (Elohim) would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!
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And yet it is my comfort || (And I exult in pain—He does not spare), || That I have not hidden || Th...
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What is my power that I should hope? And what is my end that I should prolong my life?
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Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh bronze?
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Is my help not with me, || And substance driven from me?
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To a despiser of his friends is shame, || And the fear of the Mighty he forsakes.
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My brothers have deceived as a brook, || As a stream of brooks they pass away.
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That are black because of ice, || By them snow hides itself.
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By the time they are warm they have been cut off, || By its being hot they have been || Extinguished...
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The paths turn aside of their way, || They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
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Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, || Travelers of Sheba hoped for them.
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They were ashamed that one has trusted, || They have come to it and are confounded.
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Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.
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Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
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And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, Ransom me from the hand of terrible ones?
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Show me, and I keep silent, || And what I have erred, let me understand.
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How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves?
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For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?
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You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, || And are strange to your friend.
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And now, please, look on me, || Even to your face do I lie?
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Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, || Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness is in it.
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Is there perverseness in my tongue? Does my palate not discern calamity?”
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