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Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

Why did the knees H1290 prevent H6923 (PielPerf) me? Or why the breasts H7699 that I should suck? H3243 (QalImpf)

ινα τι δε συνηντησαν μοι γονατα ινα τι δε μαστους εθηλασα

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Wherefore is light H216 given H5414 (QalImpf) to him that is in misery, H6001 And life H2416 unto the bitter H4751 in soul; H5315

ινα τι γαρ δεδοται τοις εν πικρια φως ζωη δε ταις εν οδυναις ψυχαις

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

What is my strength, H3581 that I should hope? H3176 (PielImpf) And what is mine end, H7093 that I should prolong H748 (HiphImpf) my life? H5315

τις γαρ μου η ισχυς οτι υπομενω η τις μου ο χρονος οτι ανεχεται μου η ψυχη

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

Teach H3384 (HiphImpv) me, and I will hold my tongue: H2790 (HiphImpf) And cause me to understand H995 (HiphImpv) wherein I have erred. H7686 (QalPerf)

διδαξατε με εγω δε κωφευσω ει τι πεπλανημαι φρασατε μοι

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

How forcible H4834 (NiphPerf) are right H3476 words! H561 But what doth your arguing H3198 (HiphInf) reprove? H3198 (HiphImpf)

αλλ ως εοικεν φαυλα αληθινου ρηματα ου γαρ παρ υμων ισχυν αιτουμαι

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

What is man, H582 that thou shouldest magnify H1431 (PielImpf) him? And that thou shouldest set H7896 (QalImpf) thine heart H3820 upon him?

τι γαρ εστιν ανθρωπος οτι εμεγαλυνας αυτον η οτι προσεχεις τον νουν εις αυτον

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

How long H4100 wilt thou not depart H8159 (QalImpf) from me, Nor let me alone H7503 (HiphImpf) till I swallow down H1104 (QalInf) my spittle? H7536

εως τινος ουκ εας με ουδε προιη με εως αν καταπιω τον πτυελον μου εν οδυνη

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

I have sinned; H2398 (QalPerf) what shall I do H6466 (QalImpf) unto thee, O thou preserver H5341 (QalActPtc) of men? H120 Why hast thou set H7760 (QalPerf) me as a mark H4645 against thee, So that I am a burden H4853 to myself?

ει εγω ημαρτον τι δυναμαι σοι πραξαι ο επισταμενος τον νουν των ανθρωπων δια τι εθου με κατεντευκτην σου ειμι δε επι σοι φορτιον

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

And why dost thou not pardon H5375 (QalImpf) my transgression, H6588 And take away H5674 (HiphImpf) mine iniquity? H5771 For now shall I sleep H7901 (QalImpf) in the dust; H6083 And thou shalt seek me in the morning, H7836 (PielPerf) but I shall not be.

και δια τι ουκ εποιησω της ανομιας μου ληθην και καθαρισμον της αμαρτιας μου νυνι δε εις γην απελευσομαι ορθριζων δε ουκετι ειμι

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

I know H3045 (QalPerf) it is so of a truth: H551 But how should man H582 be just H6663 (QalImpf) with God?^§ H410

Job 9:2 Or, before God

επ αληθειας οιδα οτι ουτως εστιν πως γαρ εσται δικαιος βροτος παρα κυριω

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Behold, he taketh away, H2862 (QalImpf) who can hinder H7725 (HiphImpf) him?^§ Who will say H559 (QalImpf) unto him, What doest H6213 (QalImpf) thou?

Job 9:12 Heb. who can turn him away?

εαν απαλλαξη τις αποστρεψει η τις ερει αυτω τι εποιησας

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

If I be wicked, H7561 (QalImpf) Why then labour H3021 (QalImpf) I in vain? H1892

επειδη δε ειμι ασεβης δια τι ουκ απεθανον

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

I will say H559 (QalImpf) unto God, H433 Do not condemn H7561 (HiphImpf) me; Shew H3045 (HiphImpv) me wherefore thou contendest H7378 (QalImpf) with me.

και ερω προς κυριον μη με ασεβειν διδασκε και δια τι με ουτως εκρινας

“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth H3318 (HiphPerf) out of the womb? H7358 Oh that I had given up the ghost, H1478 (QalImpf) and no eye H5869 had seen H7200 (QalImpf) me!

ινα τι ουν εκ κοιλιας με εξηγαγες και ουκ απεθανον οφθαλμος δε με ουκ ειδεν

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol.° What can you know?

Job 11:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.

It is as high H1363 as heaven;^§ H8064 what canst thou do? H6466 (QalImpf) Deeper H6013 than hell; H7585 what canst thou know? H3045 (QalImpf)

Job 11:8 Heb. the heights of heaven

υψηλος ο ουρανος και τι ποιησεις βαθυτερα δε των εν αδου τι οιδας

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Hold your peace,^§ H2790 (HiphImpv) let me alone, that I may speak, H1696 (PielImpf) And let come H5674 (QalImpf) on me what will.

Job 13:13 Heb. be silent from me

κωφευσατε ινα λαλησω και αναπαυσωμαι θυμου

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

Wherefore do I take H5375 (QalImpf) my flesh H1320 in my teeth, H8127 And put H7760 (QalImpf) my life H5315 in mine hand? H3709

αναλαβων τας σαρκας μου τοις οδουσιν ψυχην δε μου θησω εν χειρι

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

How many are mine iniquities H5771 and sins? H2403 Make me to know H3045 (HiphImpv) my transgression H6588 and my sin. H2403

ποσαι εισιν αι αμαρτιαι μου και αι ανομιαι μου διδαξον με τινες εισιν

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

Wherefore hidest H5641 (HiphImpf) thou thy face, H6440 And holdest H2803 (QalImpf) me for thine enemy? H341 (QalActPtc)

δια τι απ εμου κρυπτη ηγησαι δε με υπεναντιον σοι

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

What knowest H3045 (QalPerf) thou, that we know H3045 (QalImpf) not? What understandest H995 (QalImpf) thou, which is not in us?

τι γαρ οιδας ο ουκ οιδαμεν η τι συνιεις ο ουχι και ημεις

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Why doth thine heart H3820 carry thee away? H3947 (QalImpf) And what do thy eyes H5869 wink at, H7335 (QalImpf)

τι ετολμησεν η καρδια σου η τι επηνεγκαν οι οφθαλμοι σου

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

What is man, H582 that he should be clean? H2135 (QalImpf) And he which is born H3205 (QalPasPtc) of a woman, H802 that he should be righteous? H6663 (QalImpf)

τις γαρ ων βροτος οτι εσται αμεμπτος η ως εσομενος δικαιος γεννητος γυναικος

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Shall vain H7307 words^§ H1697 have an end? H7093 Or what emboldeneth H4834 (HiphImpf) thee that thou answerest? H6030 (QalImpf)

Job 16:3 Heb. words of wind

τι γαρ μη ταξις εστιν ρημασιν πνευματος η τι παρενοχλησει σοι οτι αποκρινη

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

Though I speak, H1696 (PielImpf) my grief H3511 is not asswaged: H2820 (NiphImpf) And though I forbear, H2308 (QalImpf) what am I eased?^§ H1980 (QalImpf)

Job 16:6 Heb. what goeth from me?

εαν γαρ λαλησω ουκ αλγησω το τραυμα εαν δε και σιωπησω τι ελαττον τρωθησομαι

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Why do ye persecute H7291 (QalImpf) me as God, H410 And are not satisfied H7646 (QalImpf) with my flesh? H1320

δια τι δε με διωκετε ωσπερ και ο κυριος απο δε σαρκων μου ουκ εμπιπλασθε

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

But ye should say, H559 (QalImpf) Why persecute H7291 (QalImpf) we him, Seeing the root H8328 of the matter H1697 is found H4672 (NiphPerf) in me?^§

Job 19:28 Or, and what root of matter is found in me?

ει δε και ερειτε τι ερουμεν εναντι αυτου και ριζαν λογου ευρησομεν εν αυτω

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

What is the Almighty, H7706 that we should serve H5647 (QalImpf) him? And what profit H3276 (HiphImpf) should we have, if we pray H6293 (QalImpf) unto him?

τι ικανος οτι δουλευσομεν αυτω και τις ωφελεια οτι απαντησομεν αυτω

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

How oft is the candle^§ H5216 of the wicked H7563 put out! H1846 (QalImpf) And how oft cometh H935 (QalImpf) their destruction H343 upon them! God distributeth H2505 (PielImpf) sorrows H2256 in his anger. H639

Job 21:17 Or, lamp

ου μην δε αλλα και ασεβων λυχνος σβεσθησεται επελευσεται δε αυτοις η καταστροφη ωδινες δε αυτους εξουσιν απο οργης

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

For what pleasure H2656 hath he in his house H1004 after H310 him, When the number H4557 of his months H2320 is cut off in the midst? H2686 (PualPerf)

οτι τι θελημα αυτου εν οικω αυτου μετ αυτον και αριθμοι μηνων αυτου διηρεθησαν

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

And thou sayest, H559 (QalPerf) How^§ doth God H410 know? H3045 (QalPerf) Can he judge H8199 (QalImpf) through the dark cloud? H6205

Job 22:13 Or, what

και ειπας τι εγνω ο ισχυρος η κατα του γνοφου κρινει

who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

Which said H559 (QalActPtc) unto God, H410 Depart H5493 (QalImpv) from us: And what can the Almighty H7706 do H6466 (QalImpf) for them?^§

Job 22:17 Or, to them

οι λεγοντες κυριος τι ποιησει ημιν η τι επαξεται ημιν ο παντοκρατωρ

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

I would know H3045 (QalImpf) the words H4405 which he would answer H6030 (QalImpf) me, And understand H995 (QalImpf) what he would say H559 (QalImpf) unto me.

γνωην δε ρηματα α μοι ερει αισθοιμην δε τινα μοι απαγγελει

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

How then can man H582 be justified H6663 (QalImpf) with God? H410 Or how can he be clean H2135 (QalImpf) that is born H3205 (QalPasPtc) of a woman? H802

πως γαρ εσται δικαιος βροτος εναντι κυριου η τις αν αποκαθαρισαι εαυτον γεννητος γυναικος

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

How hast thou helped H5826 (QalPerf) him that is without power? H3581 How savest H3467 (HiphPerf) thou the arm H2220 that hath no H3808 strength? H5797

τινι προσκεισαι η τινι μελλεις βοηθειν ποτερον ουχ ω πολλη ισχυς και ω βραχιων κραταιος εστιν

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

How hast thou counselled H3289 (QalPerf) him that hath no H3808 wisdom? H2451 And how hast thou plentifully H7230 declared H3045 (HiphPerf) the thing as it is? H8454

τινι συμβεβουλευσαι ουχ ω πασα σοφια η τινι επακολουθησεις ουχ ω μεγιστη δυναμις

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

He stretcheth out H5186 (QalActPtc) the north H6828 over the empty place, H8414 And hangeth H8518 (QalActPtc) the earth H776 upon nothing. H1099

εκτεινων βορεαν επ ουδεν κρεμαζων γην επι ουδενος

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Lo, these are parts H7098 of his ways: H1870 But how little H8102 a portion H1697 is heard H8085 (NiphPerf) of him? But the thunder H7482 of his power H1369 who can understand? H995 (HiplImpf)

ιδου ταυτα μερη οδου αυτου και επι ικμαδα λογου ακουσομεθα εν αυτω σθενος δε βροντης αυτου τις οιδεν οποτε ποιησει

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

For what is the hope H8615 of the hypocrite, H2611 though he hath gained, H1214 (QalImpf) When God H433 taketh away H7953 (QalImpf) his soul? H5315

και τις γαρ εστιν ελπις ασεβει οτι επεχει πεποιθως επι κυριον αρα σωθησεται

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen H2372 (QalPerf) it; Why then are ye thus altogether H1892 vain? H1891 (QalImpf)

ιδου δη παντες οιδατε οτι κενα κενοις επιβαλλετε

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

Yea, whereto H4100 might the strength H3581 of their hands H3027 profit me, In whom old age H3624 was perished? H6 (QalPerf)

και γε ισχυς χειρων αυτων ινα τι μοι επ αυτους απωλετο συντελεια

“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

I made H3772 (QalPerf) a covenant H1285 with mine eyes; H5869 Why then should I think H995 (HiplImpf) upon a maid? H1330

διαθηκην εθεμην τοις οφθαλμοις μου και ου συνησω επι παρθενον

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

For what portion H2506 of God H433 is there from above? H4605 And what inheritance H5159 of the Almighty H7706 from on high? H4791

και τι εμερισεν ο θεος απανωθεν και κληρονομια ικανου εξ υψιστων

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

What then shall I do H6213 (QalImpf) when God H410 riseth up? H6965 (QalImpf) And when he visiteth, H6485 (QalImpf) what shall I answer H7725 (HiphImpf) him?

τι γαρ ποιησω εαν ετασιν μου ποιησηται ο κυριος εαν δε και επισκοπην τινα αποκρισιν ποιησομαι

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Let us choose H977 (QalImpf) to us judgment: H4941 Let us know H3045 (QalImpf) among ourselves what is good. H2896

κρισιν ελωμεθα εαυτοις γνωμεν ανα μεσον εαυτων ο τι καλον

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Should it be according to thy mind?^§ He will recompense H7999 (PielImpf) it, whether thou refuse, H3588 H3988 (QalPerf) Or whether thou choose; H977 (QalImpf) and not I: Therefore speak H1696 (PielImpv) what thou knowest. H3045 (QalPerf)

Job 34:33 Heb. Should it be from with thee?

μη παρα σου αποτεισει αυτην οτι απωση οτι συ εκλεξη και ουκ εγω και τι εγνως λαλησον

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

For thou saidst, H559 (QalImpf) What advantage H5532 (QalImpf) will it be unto thee? And, What profit H3276 (HiphImpf) shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?^§ H2403

Job 35:3 Or, if by it more then by my sin

η ερεις τι ποιησω αμαρτων

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

If thou sinnest, H2398 (QalPerf) what doest H6466 (QalImpf) thou against him? Or if thy transgressions H6588 be multiplied, H7231 (QalPerf) what doest H6213 (QalImpf) thou unto him?

ει ημαρτες τι πραξεις ει δε και πολλα ηνομησας τι δυνασαι ποιησαι

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

If thou be righteous, H6663 (QalPerf) what givest H5414 (QalImpf) thou him? Or what receiveth H3947 (QalImpf) he of thine hand? H3027

επει δε ουν δικαιος ει τι δωσεις αυτω η τι εκ χειρος σου λημψεται

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Teach H3045 (HiphImpv) us what we shall say H559 (QalImpf) unto him; For we cannot order H6186 (QalImpf) our speech by reason H6440 of darkness. H2822

δια τι διδαξον με τι ερουμεν αυτω και παυσωμεθα πολλα λεγοντες

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Whereupon are the foundations^§ H134 thereof fastened?^§ H2883 (HophPerf) Or who laid H3384 (QalPerf) the corner H6438 stone H68 thereof;

Job 38:6a Heb. sockets
Job 38:6b Heb. made to sink

επι τινος οι κρικοι αυτης πεπηγασιν τις δε εστιν ο βαλων λιθον γωνιαιον επ αυτης