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Job 16 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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and thou hast laid hold of me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:9)</font> My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:10)</font> In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:11)</font> He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp <i>spear</i> he has smitten me <i>down</i> upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:12)</font> For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:13)</font> 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.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:14)</font> They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing <i>me</i> they poured out my gall upon the ground.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:15)</font> They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in <i>their</i> might.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:16)</font> They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:17)</font> My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:18)</font> Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:19)</font> Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:20)</font> And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:21)</font> Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:22)</font> Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even <i>as</i> the son of man with his neighbor!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(16:23)</font> But my years are numbered and <i>their end</i> come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>