Job 30:21 Cross References - LXX2012

²¹ They attacked me also without mercy: you have scourged me with a strong hand.

⁹ Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O you that understand the mind of men? why have you made me as your accuser, and [why] am I a burden to you? ²¹ Why have you not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

³ Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

¹⁴ And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity. ¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor. ¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me; ¹⁷ renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

²⁵ Will you be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze? ²⁶ for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth. ²⁷ And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels. ²⁸ [I am as] that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

⁹ My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. ¹⁰ In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me. ¹¹ He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord. ¹² For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. ¹³ When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark. ¹⁴ They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.

⁶ Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me. ⁷ Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment. ⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face. ⁹ And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

²² Therefore do you⌃ persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?

⁶ Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me;

⁷ That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments. ⁸ That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God. ⁹ The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting [with] the bow, turned [back] in the day of battle.

¹³ Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated concerning your servants.