Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

New American Standard Bible

“O you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?

King James Version

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Holman Bible

You who tear yourself in anger
should the earth be abandoned on your account,
or a rock be removed from its place?

International Standard Version

You're tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?"

A Conservative Version

Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

American Standard Version

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Amplified


“You who tear yourself apart in anger,
Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake,
Or the rock to be moved out of its place?

Bible in Basic English

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

Darby Translation

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Julia Smith Translation

He rent his soul in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed from its place?

King James 2000

He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?

Modern King James verseion

He tears himself in his anger; shall the earth be forsaken for you? And shall the rock be moved out of its place?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee?

NET Bible

You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

New Heart English Bible

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

The Emphasized Bible

One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, - For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

Webster

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

World English Bible

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He teareth
טרף 
Taraph 
Usage: 25

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

shall the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

for thee and shall the rock
צר צוּר 
Tsuwr 
Usage: 76

be removed
עתק 
`athaq 
Usage: 9

Context Readings

Bildad's Second Speech

3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! 4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place? 5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.


Cross References

Job 13:14

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

Job 14:18

And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.

Job 16:9

His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

Job 5:2

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

Job 40:8

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one -- Jehovah.

Ezekiel 9:9

And He saith unto me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.

Jonah 4:9

And God saith unto Jonah: 'Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, 'To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.'

Matthew 24:35

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Mark 9:18

and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.'

Luke 9:39

and lo, a spirit doth take him, and suddenly he doth cry out, and it teareth him, with foaming, and it hardly departeth from him, bruising him,

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