Job 14:11
Hebrew Text— Job 14:11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
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My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.
I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”
At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.