JOB 30:19 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) He throws me into the mud,
⇔ ≈and I’ve become like dust and ashes.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ, ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς.
(Haʸgaʸsai de me isa paʸlōi, en gaʸ kai spodōi mou haʸ meris. )

UST God has made me suffer so much that I have been sitting here on the ground.
⇔ I am even beginning to look like the dust and ashes in which I have been sitting.

OEB (God) hath plunged me into the mire,
⇔ So that I am like dust and ashes.

WEBBE He has cast me into the mire.
⇔ I have become like dust and ashes.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET He has flung me into the mud,
⇔ and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

LSV Casting me into mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.

FBV He has thrown me in the mud; he has humbled me like dust and ashes.

T4T He has thrown me into the mud;
⇔ I am not worth anything more than dust and ashes.

LEB • and I have become like dust[fn] and ashes.

30:? Hebrew “the dust”

BBE Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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JPS He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

ASV He hath cast me into the mire,
⇔ And I am become like dust and ashes.

DRA I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

YLT Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Drby He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

RV He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Wbstr He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

KJB-1769 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
(He hath/has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. )

KJB-1611 He hath cast mee into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes.
(He hath/has cast me into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes.)

Bshps He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.
(He hath/has cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.)

Gnva He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
(He hath/has cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust. )

Cvdl I am eue as it were claye, & am become like asshes & dust.
(I am eue as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.)

Wycl Y am comparisound to cley, and Y am maad lijk to a deed sparcle and aisch.
(I am comparisound to clay, and I am made like to a dead sparcle and aisch.)

Luth Man hat mich in Kot getreten und gleich geachtet dem Staub und Asche.
(Man has me in Kot getreten and gleich geachtet to_him dust and Asche.)

ClVg Comparatus sum luto, et assimilatus sum favillæ et cineri.[fn]
(Comparatus I_am luto, and assimilatus I_am favillæ and cineri. )

30.19 Comparatus sum luto. In reproborum judicio, electorum Ecclesia luto comparatur, quia temporaliter conculcata despicitur, favillæ assimilatur et cineri, quia ad sola hanc mala pervenisse æstimant, quæ in ea exhiberi corporaliter vident.

30.19 Comparatus I_am luto. In reproborum yudicio, electorum Ecclesia luto comparatur, because temporaliter conculcata despicitur, favillæ assimilatur and cineri, because to sola hanc mala pervenisse æstimant, which in ea exhiberi corporaliter vident.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns

הֹרָ֥⁠נִי לַ⁠חֹ֑מֶר

cast,me to=mortar

The pronoun He refers to text. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “God has thrown me into the mud”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

הֹרָ֥⁠נִי לַ⁠חֹ֑מֶר

cast,me to=mortar

Job is speaking as if God had literally thrown him into mud. This could mean: (1) that Job is using the image of being thrown into mud to represent his loss of position and status. Alternate translation: “God has reduced me to meager circumstances” (2) that Job is referring to the way he has been demonstrating his distress by sitting in the midst of the ash pile outside the city, as 2:8 describes. Alternate translation: “God has caused me such distress that I have been sitting in this ash heap”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

וָ֝⁠אֶתְמַשֵּׁ֗ל כֶּ⁠עָפָ֥ר וָ⁠אֵֽפֶר

and,become like_the,dust and,ashes

Job is speaking as if he had literally become like dust and ashes. This could be: (1) a physical description. Job may mean that the dust and ashes from the pile where he is sitting have stuck to his skin because of his oozing sores and so now he physically resembles dust and ashes himself. Job describes the appearance of his body in the previous verse, and this could be a continuation of that description. Alternate translation: “and I now appear to have become dust and ashes” (2) a comparison. Job may be saying that in some way his situation resembles some characteristic of dust and ashes, perhaps their lowliness of being on the ground. Alternate translation: “and I am greatly humiliated”

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