Job 30:21 Cross References - Coverdale

²¹ Thou art become myne enemye, & wt yi violet hade thou takest parte agaynst me.

⁹ That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.

²⁰ I haue offended, what shal I do vnto ye, O thou preseruer off men? Why hast thou made me to stonde in thy waye, and am so heuy a burden vnto myself? ²¹ Why doest thou not forgeue me my synne? Wherfore takest thou not awaye my wickednesse? Beholde, now must I slepe in the dust: and yff thou sekest me tomorow in the mornynge, I shalbe gone.

³ Thinkest thou it well done, to oppresse me, to cast me of (beinge a worke of thy hondes) and to manteyne the councell of the vngodly?

¹⁴ Wherfore didest thou kepe me, when I synned, and hast not clensed me fro myne offence? ¹⁵ Yf I do wickedly, wo is me therfore: Yf I be rightuous, yet darre I not lift vp my heade: so full am I of confucion, and se myne owne misery. ¹⁶ Thou huntest me out (beynge in heuynesse) as it were a Lyon, and troublest me out of measure. ¹⁷ Thou bringest fresh witnesses agaynst me, thy wrath increasest thou vpon me, very many are the plages that I am in.

²⁵ Wilt thou be so cruell & extreme vnto a flyenge leaf, and folowe vpon drye stubble? ²⁶ that thou layest so sharply to my charge, and wilt vtterly vndoo me, for ye synnes of my yougth? ²⁷ Thou hast put my fote in the stockes: thou lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, & marckest the steppes of my fete: ²⁸ where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

⁹ He is angrie at me, he hateth me, and gnassheth vpon me with his teth. Myne enemy skouleth vpon me with his eyes. ¹⁰ They haue opened their mouthes wyde vpon me, and smytten me vpon the cheke despitefully, they haue eased the selues thorow myne aduersite. ¹¹ God hath geuen me ouer to the vngodly, and delyuered me in to the hondes of ye wicked. ¹² I was somtyme in wealth, but sodenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rente me, and set me, as it were a marck for him to shute at. ¹³ He hath compased me rounde aboute with his dartes, he hath wounded my loynes, & not spared. My bowels hath he poured vpon the grounde. ¹⁴ He hath geue me one wounde vpon another, and is falle vpon me like a giaunte.

⁶ knowe this then, yt it is God, which hath handled me so violetly, & hath compased me aboute with his scourges. ⁷ Beholde, though I crie, yet violece is done vnto me, I can not be herde: Though I complane, there is none to geue sentece with me. ⁸ He hath hedged vp my path, I ca not get awaye, he hath set darcknesse in my gate. ⁹ He hath spoyled me of myne honoure, & taken the crowne awaye fro my heade.

²² Seynge God persecuteth me, wil ye vexe me also? Haue ye not yet ynough of the trouble of my flesh?

⁶ Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me?

⁷ Wil the LORDE cast out for euer? Wil he be nomore intreated? ⁸ Is his mercy cleane gone? Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore? ⁹ Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure?

¹³ Thou hast made the north and the south, Tabor and Hermon shal reioyse in thy name.

¹⁴ All thy louers haue forgotten the, and care nothinge for the. For I haue geuen the a cruell stroke, and chastened the roughly: and that for the multitude of thy my?dedes, for thy synnes haue had the ouer hande.

⁶ Submytte yor selues therfore vnder the mightie hande of God, that he maye exalte you whan the tyme is come.