Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.

New American Standard Bible

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

King James Version

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

Holman Bible

He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.
He uproots my hope like a tree.

International Standard Version

He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

American Standard Version

He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

Amplified


“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Bible in Basic English

I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

Darby Translation

He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

Julia Smith Translation

He will lay me waste round about, and I shall go: and he will remove my hope as a tree.

King James 2000

He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

Modern King James verseion

He has broken me on every side, and I am gone, and He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root.

NET Bible

He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.

New Heart English Bible

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

The Emphasized Bible

He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away - like a tree - my hope;

Webster

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree.

World English Bible

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

Youngs Literal Translation

He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתץ 
Nathats 
Usage: 42

me on every side
סביבה סביב 
Cabiyb 
Usage: 334

and I am gone
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

and mine hope
תּקוה 
Tiqvah 
Usage: 34

נסע 
Naca` 
Usage: 146

Context Readings

Job's Sixth Speech: A Response To Bildad

9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree. 11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.

Cross References

Job 24:20

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Job 1:13-19

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

Job 2:7

So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

Job 6:11

What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 8:13-18

So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

Job 12:14

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 17:11

My days are past. my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

Job 17:15

where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Psalm 88:13-18

But to thee, O LORD, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Lamentations 2:5-6

LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing,

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