Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat

New American Standard Bible

“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

King James Version

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Holman Bible

My clothing is distorted with great force;
He chokes me by the neck of my garment.

International Standard Version

My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

A Conservative Version

By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

American Standard Version

By God's great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Amplified


“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.

Bible in Basic English

With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

Darby Translation

By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

King James 2000

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He seizes my clothing with {great power}; he grasps me by my tunic's collar.

Modern King James verseion

By the great force of my disease my clothing is exposed; it binds me about like the mouth of my coat.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.

NET Bible

With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

New Heart English Bible

By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

The Emphasized Bible

Most effectually, is my skin disfigured, - Like the collar of my tunic, it girdeth me about:

Webster

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

World English Bible

By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

Youngs Literal Translation

By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
By the great
רב 
Rob 
Usage: 153

כּוח כּח 
Koach 
Usage: 126

of my disease is my garment
לבשׁ לבוּשׁ 
L@buwsh 
Usage: 32

חפשׂ 
Chaphas 
Usage: 23

it bindeth me about
אזר 
'azar 
Usage: 16

as the collar
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

17 The night my bones pierced from above me, and my gnawers will not lie down. 18 By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat 19 He cast me to the clay; I shall become like as dust and ashes.


Cross References

Job 2:7

And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown.

Job 7:5

And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.

Job 19:20

My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth.

Psalm 38:5

For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.

Isaiah 1:5-6

For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick

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