Job Chapter 17

Job 17

Job's fourth reaction continues... 

1 Oh, the SPIRIT (of God); as at this day, everyone bound in the grave are raging/angry. 

2 Why is my eyes embittered by mockery from those who are just staying overnight with me? 

3  who put hands to clap as they intermix;

4 whose brains are exalted but their emotions/feelings are concealed, 

5 friends that frankly declare to their sons, a portion that will finish up in their own eyes:

6 - people who present a byword/parable of contemptuous-rejection of Topheth (2king 23:10, Jer 7:31) in my presence;

7 If eyes become dull/dim under a shade, there will be a vexation about its formation/how it was shaped;

8 when a hypocrite is stirring up/awakening the upright, the innocent ones will be appalled/devastated:

9 If the Righteous is seized on the way, the purity of his hand will add to his inner-strength/bravery:

10 you came to restore me,  but on the contrary, you find out, I am a wise man;

11 because, from the day you cross over, it is like you plot to disconnect my inner-heart from my possession/authorized things.

12 the darkness of the night and the light of the daytime are put near in my face;

13 my households are expecting me to spread my bed in the darkness of sheol/hades;

14 when father and mother, and sisters that breed/raised him up will be calling out unto the pit. 

15 is there hope here now? There is hope of fortified walls, - - 

16 - - apart from descending into the dust of the earth, there will be restfulness in the sheol/hades, all together.

Job Chapter 18

Job 18

Second submission of a friend Bilhad 

1 Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2 how long will you put an end/a finality to this words? May be, after we understand everything you are saying/rehearsing.

3 how/when do you contrive/plait an animal to be defiled in your eyes?

4 Souls are to be left on earth like all sharp-rocks in their places. But, why are they being torn into pieces in anger and moved out?

5 As light that glitter/shine and fire that is sparking/spitting shall be extinguished, so shall it be with the wicked.

6 - the lamp in his tent will be quenched and his light will be darkened:

7 their steps/pace, internal drives, even their counsel and things from their potency/efforts shall be thrown-away:

8 because they sent out traps in a network-structure for those who walk around on feet.

9 they catch those in the rear position with snare and are made strong upon their young plants. 

10 they hide a twisted rope as traps on routes on earth:

11 at some times, they scatter things that are around the timid ones (bilhah), with their feet. 

12 they are established by the potency/effort from the misfortune/bending down of the ribs of the hungry ones;

13 they will eat, except by death of their first-born or except their skin/complexion is devoured. 

14 kings are marching/pacing up to the timid ones (bilhah) and tear off the security of their tents. 

15 - - they disperse those dwelling in tents with (inflammable) sulphur, with no more dwelling-place,

16 just as a harvest above the roots dry up when it is cut short;

17 their names can be (there) outside, but their memorial shall be lost on the surface of the earth:

18 they move to and fro on the habitable part of the world, but they shall be pushed away from light into darkness,

19  their grand-children (progeny) and great grand-children shall be sojourners (to be expelled) with remnants/survivors of the people;

20 because after their former days, it is appalling that they (still) seize things at the gate;

21 and their tabernacle is a place, the main-leader had known for injustice.

Job Chapter 19

Job 19

Job's fifth reaction

1 Job answered and said:

2 Why afflicting my soul with crushing words?

3 I have felt hurt/insulted once and to add up (to ten it), I am being put to shame as though I am unfamiliar/unrecognized to you:

4 No doubt, I am misled into the error of lodging you:

5 you have indeed corrected me by twisting my reproach big:

6 I know that  the fortress/stronghold that surround me is being strictly thwarted/wrestled, with the Extremely Mighty God (Eloah eloah), here now; 

7  I will shout for freedom from violence, I will scream for HIM to answer - by HIS verdicts:

8 passing through a path with barrier/fence is like being put on a route that is in darkness:

9 If a head (master) is stripped of his crown, his glory has declined:

10 you walked round about and start a journey to tear down trees of hope;

11 you have plaited/contrived to kindle anger of someone in a tight place:

12 like a battalion, who is paving way, you have come to pitched/encamped around my tent:

13 you know that my brethren are put far away from me like strangers:

14 you know that those who are close to me, have ceased and mislaid me:

15 I am plaited/contrived in the eyes of my maid-servants and those who lodge in my house as stranger and foreigner/sojourner. 

16 These are servants that I responded to, with my own mouth, when they called out to be shown mercy. 

17 oh the SPIRIT (of God); even the sons from the belly of a strange-women are in my shops. 

18 It will be rejected with disdain, should a little baby rise up to speak/rehearse. 

19 the secret counsel of an adult is abhorring/loathed to them and they love to reverse/turn it around:

20 a skin that still adhere to the flesh on a bone, is the skin that still escape the teeth:

21 oh my friends; show mercy to receive mercy - for the hand of Extremely Mighty God (Eloahh eloah) has (negatively) touched me:

22 Why should main-leader (el) persecute another flesh? Just to be satisfied:

23 oh that words I give are strictly written down here now! Oh that a book is given for them to be legislated/enacted! -

24 - oh, that  a lead-pen of iron will engrave/cut them out on a rock forever!

25 I know that the living-beings will rise up at last and be redeemed from the dust of the earth - 

26 - -and I chest/envisionthe that thereafter, the Extremely Mighty God (Eloahh eloah), will encompass their flesh with skin. 

27 - - to be envisioning those in your bosom as a stranger, will come to an end; because even eyes will see reins/kidneys.

28 it is said, he who pursue a matter/spoken-word will find its root:

29 and I know that even for a sojourner, a fury/poison of sword can only be because of perversity, and that, same sword should be from the presence of the Justice (of law).