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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
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- Primary Witness Text: Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afrai...
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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
Job's friends represent the dominant ancient Near Eastern theodicy: suffering = sin. God's answer from the whirlwind (chs. 38-41) does not explain the suffering but confronts Job with the staggering scale and wisdom of the creation — demanding the creature's epistemological humility before the Creator. Job 19:25-27 ("I know that my Redeemer lives") stands as the OT's most personal resurrection confession.
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Job 13:1
Hebrew
הֶן־כֹּל רָאֲתָה עֵינִי שָֽׁמְעָה אָזְנִי וַתָּבֶן לָֽהּ׃hen-khol-ra'atah-'eyniy-shame'ah-'azeniy-vataven-lah
KJV: Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
AKJV: See, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
ASV: Lo, mine eye hath seen all this,
YLT: Lo, all--hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
Exposition: Job 13:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:2
Hebrew
כְּֽדַעְתְּכֶם יָדַעְתִּי גַם־אָנִי לֹא־נֹפֵל אָנֹכִי מִכֶּֽם׃kheda'etekhem-yada'etiy-gam-'aniy-lo'-nofel-'anokhiy-mikhem
KJV: What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
AKJV: What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you.
ASV: What ye know, the same do I know also:
YLT: According to your knowledge I have known--also I. I am not fallen more than you.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 13:2Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 13:2
Job 13:2 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 13:2
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- Job 13:2
Exposition: Job 13:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:3
Hebrew
אוּלָם אֲנִי אֶל־שַׁדַּי אֲדַבֵּר וְהוֹכֵחַ אֶל־אֵל אֶחְפָּֽץ׃'vlam-'aniy-'el-shaday-'adaver-vehvokhecha-'el-'el-'echefatz
KJV: Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
AKJV: Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
ASV: Surely I would speak to the Almighty,
YLT: Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
Commentary WitnessJob 13:3Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 13:3
Verse 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty - אולם ulam, O that: - I wish I could speak to the Almighty! I desire to reason with God - He speaks here to reference to the proceedings in a court of justice. Ye pretend to be advocates for God, but ye are forgers of lies: O that God himself would appear! Before him I could soon prove my innocence of the evils with which ye charge me.
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Job 13:3
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Exposition: Job 13:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:4
Hebrew
וְֽאוּלָם אַתֶּם טֹֽפְלֵי־שָׁקֶר רֹפְאֵי אֱלִל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃ve'vlam-'atem-tofeley-shaqer-rofe'ey-'elil-khulekhem
KJV: But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
AKJV: But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
ASV: But ye are forgers of lies;
YLT: And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought--all of you,
Commentary WitnessJob 13:4Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:4
Verse 4 Ye are forgers of lies - Ye frame deceitful arguments: ye reason sophistically, and pervert truth and justice, in order to support your cause. Physicians of no value - Ye are as feeble in your reasonings as ye are inefficient in your skill. Ye can neither heal the wound of my mind, nor the disease of my body. In ancient times every wise man professed skill in the healing art, and probably Job's friends had tried their skill on his body as well as on his mind. He therefore had, in his argument against their teaching, a double advantage: Your skill in divinity and physic is equal: in the former ye are forgers of lies; in the latter, ye are good-for-nothing physicians. I can see no reason to depart from the general meaning of the original to which the ancient versions adhere. The Chaldee says: "Ye are idle physicians; and, like the mortified flesh which is cut off with the knife, so are the whole of you." The imagery in the former clause is chirurpical, and refers to the sewing together, or connecting the divided sides of wounds; for טפלי topheley, which we translate forgers, comes from טפל taphal, to fasten, tie, connect, sew together. And I question whether טפלי topheley here may not as well express Surgeons, as רפאי ropheey, in the latter clause, Physicians. Ye are Chirurgeons of falsity, and worthless Physicians.
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Job 13:4
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- Surgeons
- Physicians
Exposition: Job 13:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:5
Hebrew
מִֽי־יִתֵּן הַחֲרֵשׁ תַּחֲרִישׁוּן וּתְהִי לָכֶם לְחָכְמָֽה׃miy-yiten-hacharesh-tachariyshvn-vtehiy-lakhem-lechakhemah
KJV: O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
AKJV: O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
ASV: Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace!
YLT: O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Commentary WitnessJob 13:5Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:5
Verse 5 Hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom - In Pro 17:28 we have the following apophtheym: "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips, a man of understanding." There is no reason to say that Solomon quotes from Job: I have already expressed my opinion that the high antiquity attributed to this book is perfectly unfounded, and that there is much more evidence that Solomon was its author, than there is that it was the composition of Moses. But, whenever Job lived, whether before Abraham or after Moses, the book was not written till the time of Solomon, if not later. But as to the saying in question, it is a general apophthegm, and may be found among the wise sayings of all nations. I may observe here, that a silent man is not likely to be a fool; for a fool will be always prating, or, according to another adage, a fool's bolt is soon shot. The Latins have the same proverb: Vir sapit, qui pauca loquitur, "A wise man speaks little."
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Job 13:5
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- Moses
- Job
- But
- Solomon
Exposition: Job 13:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:6
Hebrew
שִׁמְעוּ־נָא תוֹכַחְתִּי וְרִבוֹת שְׂפָתַי הַקְשִֽׁיבוּ׃shime'v-na'-tvokhachetiy-verivvot-shefatay-haqeshiyvv
KJV: Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
AKJV: Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
ASV: Hear now my reasoning,
YLT: Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
Commentary WitnessJob 13:6Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:6
Verse 6 Hear now my reasoning - The speeches in this book are conceived as it delivered in a court of justice, different counselors pleading against each other. Hence most of the terms are forensic.
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Job 13:6
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Exposition: Job 13:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:7
Hebrew
הַלְאֵל תְּדַבְּרוּ עַוְלָה וְלוֹ תְּֽדַבְּרוּ רְמִיָּֽה׃hale'el-tedaverv-'avelah-velvo-tedaverv-remiyah
KJV: Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
AKJV: Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
ASV: Will ye speak unrighteously for God,
YLT: For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
Commentary WitnessJob 13:7Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:7
Verse 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? - In order to support your own cause, in contradiction to the evidence which the whole of my life bears to the uprightness of my heart, will ye continue to assert that God could not thus afflict me, unless flagrant iniquity were found in my ways; for it is on this ground alone that ye pretend to vindicate the providence of God. Thus ye tell lies for God's sake, and thus ye wickedly contend for your Maker.
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Job 13:7
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Ovid
- Maker
Exposition: Job 13:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:8
Hebrew
הֲפָנָיו תִּשָּׂאוּן אִם־לָאֵל תְּרִיבֽוּן׃hafanayv-tisha'vn-'im-la'el-teriyvvn
KJV: Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
AKJV: Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
ASV: Will ye show partiality to him?
YLT: His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Commentary WitnessJob 13:8Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:8
Verse 8 Will ye accept his person? - Do you think to act by him as you would by a mortal; and, by telling lies in his favor, attempt to conciliate his esteem?
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Job 13:8
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Exposition: Job 13:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:9
Hebrew
הֲטוֹב כִּֽי־יַחְקֹר אֶתְכֶם אִם־כְּהָתֵל בֶּאֱנוֹשׁ תְּהָתֵלּוּ בֽוֹ׃hatvov-khiy-yacheqor-'etekhem-'im-khehatel-ve'envosh-tehatelv-vvo
KJV: Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
AKJV: Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
ASV: Is it good that he should search you out?
YLT: Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
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Job 13:9
Verse 9 Is it good that he should search you out? - Would it be to your credit if God should try your hearts, and uncover the motives of your conduct? Were you tried as I am, how would you appear? Do ye so mock him? - Do ye think that you can deceive him; and by flattering speeches bring him to your terms, as you would bring an undiscerning, empty mortal, like yourselves?
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Job 13:9
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Exposition: Job 13:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:10
Hebrew
הוֹכֵחַ יוֹכִיחַ אֶתְכֶם אִם־בַּסֵּתֶר פָּנִים תִּשָּׂאֽוּן׃hvokhecha-yvokhiycha-'etekhem-'im-vaseter-faniym-tisha'vn
KJV: He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
AKJV: He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons.
ASV: He will surely reprove you,
YLT: He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 13:10Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 13:10
Job 13:10 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 13:10
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 13:10
Exposition: Job 13:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:11
Hebrew
הֲלֹא שְׂאֵתוֹ תְּבַעֵת אֶתְכֶם וּפַחְדּוֹ יִפֹּל עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃halo'-she'etvo-teva'et-'etekhem-vfachedvo-yifol-'aleykhem
KJV: Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
AKJV: Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall on you?
ASV: Shall not his majesty make you afraid,
YLT: Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 13:11Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 13:11
Job 13:11 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 13:11
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 13:11
Exposition: Job 13:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:12
Hebrew
זִֽכְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵפֶר לְגַבֵּי־חֹמֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃zikheroneykhem-misheley-'efer-legavey-chomer-gaveykhem
KJV: Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
AKJV: Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
ASV: Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
YLT: Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Commentary WitnessJob 13:12Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:12
Verse 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes - Your memorable sayings are proverbs of dust. This is properly the meaning of the original: זכרניכם משלי אפר zichroneycem mishley epher. This he speaks in reference to the ancient and reputedly wise sayings which they had so copiously quoted against him. Your bodies to bodies of clay - This clause is variously translated: Your swelling heaps are swelling heaps of mire. That is, Your high-flown speeches are dark, involved, and incoherent; they are all sound, no sense; great swelling words, either of difficult or no meaning, or of no point as applicable to my case.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
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Job 13:12
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Exposition: Job 13:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:13
Hebrew
הַחֲרִישׁוּ מִמֶּנִּי וַאֲדַבְּרָה־אָנִי וְיַעֲבֹר עָלַי מָֽה׃hachariyshv-mimeniy-va'adaverah-'aniy-veya'avor-'alay-mah
KJV: Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
AKJV: Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
ASV: Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak;
YLT: Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
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Job 13:13
Verse 13 Hold your peace - You have perverted righteousness and truth, and your pleadings are totally irrelevant to the case; you have traveled out of the road; you have left law and justice behind you; it is high time that you should have done. Let come on me what will - I will now defend myself against you, and leave the cause to its issue.
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Job 13:13
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Exposition: Job 13:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:14
Hebrew
עַל־מָה ׀ אֶשָּׂא בְשָׂרִי בְשִׁנָּי וְנַפְשִׁי אָשִׂים בְּכַפִּֽי׃'al-mah- -'esha'-veshariy-veshinay-venafeshiy-'ashiym-vekhafiy
KJV: Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
AKJV: Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
ASV: Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth,
YLT: Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
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Job 13:14
Verse 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth - A proverbial expression. I risk every thing on the justice of my cause. I put my life in my hand, 1Sam 28:21. I run all hazards; I am fearless of the consequences.
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Job 13:14
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- 1Sam 28:21
Exposition: Job 13:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:15
Hebrew
הֵן יִקְטְלֵנִי לא לוֹ אֲיַחֵל אַךְ־דְּרָכַי אֶל־פָּנָיו אוֹכִֽיחַ׃hen-yiqeteleniy-l'-lvo-'ayachel-'akhe-derakhay-'el-fanayv-'vokhiycha
KJV: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
AKJV: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
ASV: Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope:
YLT: Lo, He doth slay me--I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
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Job 13:15
Job 13:15 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 13:15
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- Job 13:15
Exposition: Job 13:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:16
Hebrew
גַּם־הוּא־לִי לִֽישׁוּעָה כִּי־לֹא לְפָנָיו חָנֵף יָבֽוֹא׃gam-hv'-liy-liyshv'ah-khiy-lo'-lefanayv-chanef-yavvo'
KJV: He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
AKJV: He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
ASV: This also shall be my salvation,
YLT: Also--He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
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Job 13:16
Verse 16 He also shall be my salvation - He will save me, because I trust in him. A hypocrite - A wicked man shall never be able to stand before him. I am conscious of this, and were I, as you suppose, a secret sinner, I should not dare to make this appeal.
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Job 13:16
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Exposition: Job 13:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:17
Hebrew
שִׁמְעוּ שָׁמוֹעַ מִלָּתִי וְאֽ͏ַחֲוָתִי בְּאָזְנֵיכֶֽם׃shime'v-shamvo'a-milatiy-ve'achavatiy-ve'azeneykhem
KJV: Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
AKJV: Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
ASV: Hear diligently my speech,
YLT: Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
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Job 13:17
Job 13:17 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 13:17
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- Job 13:17
Exposition: Job 13:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:18
Hebrew
הִנֵּה־נָא עָרַכְתִּי מִשְׁפָּט יָדַעְתִּי כִּֽי־אֲנִי אֶצְדָּֽק׃hineh-na'-'arakhetiy-mishefat-yada'etiy-khiy-'aniy-'etzedaq
KJV: Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
AKJV: Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
ASV: Behold now, I have set my cause in order;
YLT: Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
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Job 13:18
Verse 18 Behold now, I have ordered - I am now ready to come into court, and care not how many I have to contend with, provided they speak truth.
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Job 13:18
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- Ovid
Exposition: Job 13:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:19
Hebrew
מִי־הוּא יָרִיב עִמָּדִי כִּֽי־עַתָּה אַחֲרִישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃miy-hv'-yariyv-'imadiy-khiy-'atah-'achariysh-ve'egeva'
KJV: Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
AKJV: Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
ASV: Who is he that will contend with me?
YLT: Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
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Job 13:19
Verse 19 Who is he that will plead with me? - Let my accuser, the plaintiff, come forward; I will defend my cause against him. I shall give up the ghost - I shall cease to breathe. Defending myself will be as respiration unto me; or, While he is stating his case, I will be so silent as scarcely to appear to breathe.
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Job 13:19
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Exposition: Job 13:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:20
Hebrew
אַךְ־שְׁתַּיִם אַל־תַּעַשׂ עִמָּדִי אָז מִפָּנֶיךָ לֹא אֶסָּתֵֽר׃'akhe-shetayim-'al-ta'ash-'imadiy-'az-mifaneykha-lo'-'esater
KJV: Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
AKJV: Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from you.
ASV: Only do not two things unto me;
YLT: Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
Commentary WitnessJob 13:20Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:20
Verse 20 Only do not two things unto me - These two things are the following: 1. Withdraw thine hand far from me - remove the heavy affliction which thy hand has inflicted. 2. Let not thy dread make me afraid - terrify me not with dreadful displays of thy majesty. The reasons of this request are sufficiently evident: 1. How can a man stand in a court of justice and plead for his life, when under grievous bodily affliction? Withdraw thy hand far from me. 2. Is it to be expected that a man can be sufficiently recollected, and in self-possession, to plead for his life, when he is overwhelmed with the awful appearance of the judge, the splendor of the court, and the various ensigns of justice? Let not thy dread make me afraid.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 13:20
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Exposition: Job 13:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:21
Hebrew
כַּפְּךָ מֵעָלַי הַרְחַק וְאֵמָתְךָ אַֽל־תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃khafekha-me'alay-harechaq-ve'ematekha-'al-teva'ataniy
KJV: Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
AKJV: Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
ASV: Withdraw thy hand far from me;
YLT: Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 13:21Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 13:21
Job 13:21 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
Canonical locus
Job 13:21
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 13:21
Exposition: Job 13:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:22
Hebrew
וּקְרָא וְאָנֹכִי אֶֽעֱנֶה אֽוֹ־אֲדַבֵּר וַהֲשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃vqera'-ve'anokhiy-'e'eneh-'vo-'adaver-vahashiyveniy
KJV: Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
AKJV: Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.
ASV: Then call thou, and I will answer;
YLT: And call Thou, and I--I answer, Or--I speak, and answer Thou me.
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Job 13:22
Verse 22 Then call thou - Begin thou first to plead, and I will answer for myself; or, I will first state and defend my own case, and then answer thou me.
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Job 13:22
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Exposition: Job 13:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:23
Hebrew
כַּמָּה לִי עֲוֺנוֹת וְחַטָּאוֹת פִּֽשְׁעִי וְחַטָּאתִי הֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃khamah-liy-'avnvot-vechata'vot-fishe'iy-vechata'tiy-hodiy'eniy
KJV: How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
AKJV: How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
ASV: How many are mine iniquities and sins?
YLT: How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
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Job 13:23
Verse 23 How many are mine iniquities - Job being permitted to begin first, enters immediately upon the subject; and as it was a fact that he was grievously afflicted, and this his friends asserted was in consequence of grievous iniquities, he first desires to have them specified. What are the specific charges in this indictment? To say I must be a sinner to be thus afflicted, is saying nothing; tell me what are the sins, and show me the proofs.
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Canonical locus
Job 13:23
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Exposition: Job 13:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:24
Hebrew
לָֽמָּה־פָנֶיךָ תַסְתִּיר וְתַחְשְׁבֵנִי לְאוֹיֵב לָֽךְ׃lamah-faneykha-tasetiyr-vetachesheveniy-le'voyev-lakhe
KJV: Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
AKJV: Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
ASV: Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
YLT: Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
Commentary WitnessJob 13:24Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:24
Verse 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Why is it that I no longer enjoy thy approbation? Holdest me for thine enemy? - Treatest me as if I were the vilest of sinners?
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 13:24
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Exposition: Job 13:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:25
Hebrew
הֶעָלֶה נִדָּף תַּעֲרוֹץ וְאֶת־קַשׁ יָבֵשׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃he'aleh-nidaf-ta'arvotz-ve'et-qash-yavesh-tiredof
KJV: Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
AKJV: Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
ASV: Wilt thou harass a driven leaf?
YLT: A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 13:25Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 13:25
Job 13:25 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
Canonical locus
Job 13:25
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 13:25
Exposition: Job 13:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:26
Hebrew
כִּֽי־תִכְתֹּב עָלַי מְרֹרוֹת וְתוֹרִישֵׁנִי עֲוֺנוֹת נְעוּרָֽי׃khiy-tikhetov-'alay-merorvot-vetvoriysheniy-'avnvot-ne'vray
KJV: For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
AKJV: For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
ASV: For thou writest bitter things against me,
YLT: For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
Commentary WitnessJob 13:26Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:26
Verse 26 Thou writest bitter things against me - The indictment is filled with bitter or grievous charges, which, if proved, would bring me to bitter punishment. The iniquities of my youth - The Levities and indiscretions of my youth I acknowledge; but is this a ground on which to form charges against a man the integrity of whose life is unimpeachable?
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 13:26
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Exposition: Job 13:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:27
Hebrew
וְתָשֵׂם בַּסַּד ׀ רַגְלַי וְתִשְׁמוֹר כָּל־אָרְחוֹתָי עַל־שָׁרְשֵׁי רַגְלַי תִּתְחַקֶּֽה׃vetashem-vasad- -ragelay-vetishemvor-khal-'arechvotay-'al-shareshey-ragelay-titechaqeh
KJV: Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
AKJV: You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.
ASV: Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks,
YLT: And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
Commentary WitnessJob 13:27Quoted commentary witness
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Job 13:27
Verse 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks - בסד bassad, "in a clog," such as was tied to the feet of slaves, to prevent them from running away. This is still used in the West Indies, among slave-dealers; and is there called the pudding, being a large collar of iron, locked round the ankle of the unfortunate man. Some have had them twenty pounds' weight; and, having been condemned to carry them for several years, when released could not walk without them! A case of this kind I knew: The slave had learned to walk well with his pudding, but when taken off, if he attempted to walk, he fell down, and was obliged to resume it occasionally, till practice had taught him the proper center of gravity, which had been so materially altered by wearing so large a weight; the badge at once of his oppression, and of the cruelty of his task-masters! And lookest narrowly - Thou hast seen all my goings out and comings in; and there is no step I have taken in life with which thou art unacquainted. Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet - Some understand this as the mark left on the foot by the clog; or the owner's mark indented on this clog; or, Thou hast pursued me as a hound does his game, by the scent.
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Exposition: Job 13:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 13:28
Hebrew
וְהוּא כְּרָקָב יִבְלֶה כְּבֶגֶד אֲכָלוֹ עָֽשׁ׃vehv'-kheraqav-yiveleh-kheveged-'akhalvo-'ash
KJV: And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
AKJV: And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.
ASV: Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth,
YLT: And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
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Job 13:28
Verse 28 And he, as a rotten thing - I am like a vessel made of skin; rotten, because of old age, or like a garment corroded by the moth. So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic understood it. The word he may refer to himself.
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Job 13:28
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- Septuagint
- Syriac
Exposition: Job 13:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Job 13:1
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- Job 13:10
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- Job 13:13
- 1Sam 28:21
- Job 13:14
- Job 13:15
- Job 13:16
- Job 13:17
- Job 13:18
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- Job 13:20
- Job 13:21
- Job 13:22
- Job 13:23
- Job 13:24
- Job 13:25
- Job 13:26
- Job 13:27
- Job 13:28
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- Moses
- Job
- But
- Solomon
- Ovid
- Maker
- West Indies
- Septuagint
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Job 13:1
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