Job 16:11

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God hands me over to the unjust;he throws me to the wicked.

Hebrew Names Version
God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

King James Version
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

English Standard Version
God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

New Century Version
God has turned me over to evil people and has handed me over to the wicked.

New English Translation
God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

Amplified Bible
"God hands me over to criminals And tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.

New American Standard Bible
"God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

World English Bible
God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Geneva Bible (1587)
God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.

Legacy Standard Bible
God hands me over to ruffiansAnd tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

Berean Standard Bible
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
And God is the one who handed me over to this merciless mob.

Complete Jewish Bible
"God delivers me to the perverse, throws me into the hands of the wicked.

Darby Translation
God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.

Easy-to-Read Version
God has given me to evil people. He let the wicked hurt me.

George Lamsa Translation
God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Good News Translation
God has handed me over to evil people.

Lexham English Bible
God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Literal Translation
God has delivered me to the perverse; and He has turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
God hath geuen me ouer to the vngodly, and delyuered me in to the hondes of ye wicked.

American Standard Version
God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

Bible in Basic English
God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

King James Version (1611)
God hath deliuered me to the vngodly, and turned me ouer into the hands of the wicked.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp spear he has smitten me down upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.

English Revised Version
God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God hath closid me togidere at the wickid, and hath youe me to the hondis of wickid men.

Update Bible Version
God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Webster's Bible Translation
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

New King James Version
God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.

New Living Translation
God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.

New Life Bible
God gives me over to bad men. He throws me into the hands of the sinful.

New Revised Standard
God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(16-12) God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

Revised Standard Version
God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Young's Literal Translation
God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

Contextual Overview

⁶"When I speak up, I feel no better; if I say nothing, that doesn't help either. I feel worn down. God, you have wasted me totally—me and my family! You've shriveled me like a dried prune, showing the world that you're against me. My gaunt face stares back at me from the mirror, a mute witness to your treatment of me. Your anger tears at me, your teeth rip me to shreds, your eyes burn holes in me—God, my enemy! People take one look at me and gasp. Contemptuous, they slap me around and gang up against me. And God just stands there and lets them do it, lets wicked people do what they want with me. I was contentedly minding my business when God beat me up. He grabbed me by the neck and threw me around. He set me up as his target, then rounded up archers to shoot at me. Merciless, they shot me full of arrows; bitter bile poured from my gut to the ground. He burst in on me, onslaught after onslaught, charging me like a mad bull. ¹⁵"I sewed myself a shroud and wore it like a shirt; I lay facedown in the dirt. Now my face is blotched red from weeping; look at the dark shadows under my eyes, Even though I've never hurt a soul and my prayers are sincere!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

delivered me: Heb. shut me up, 1 Samuel 24:18, *marg. Psalms 31:8, Romans 11:32, *marg.

to the ungodly: Job 1:13-19, Job 2:7, Psalms 7:14, John 19:16, 2 Corinthians 12:7

turned: Psalms 27:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:30 - shut them Job 10:17 - war Job 12:14 - he shutteth Job 19:6 - God Job 19:12 - His Job 20:22 - every hand Job 40:2 - he that reproveth Jeremiah 45:3 - added

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "That's not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I'll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.

Exodus 3:7
God said, "I've taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I've heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 3:9
"The Israelite cry for help has come to me, and I've seen for myself how cruelly they're being treated by the Egyptians. It's time for you to go back: I'm sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the People of Israel, out of Egypt."

1 Samuel 1:20
Before the year was out, Hannah had conceived and given birth to a son. She named him Samuel, explaining, "I asked God for him."

Luke 1:13
But the angel reassured him, "Don't fear, Zachariah. Your prayer has been heard. Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you. You are to name him John. You're going to leap like a gazelle for joy, and not only you—many will delight in his birth. He'll achieve great stature with God. "He'll drink neither wine nor beer. He'll be filled with the Holy Spirit from the moment he leaves his mother's womb. He will turn many sons and daughters of Israel back to their God. He will herald God's arrival in the style and strength of Elijah, soften the hearts of parents to children, and kindle devout understanding among hardened skeptics—he'll get the people ready for God." Zachariah said to the angel, "Do you expect me to believe this? I'm an old man and my wife is an old woman." But the angel said, "I am Gabriel, the sentinel of God, sent especially to bring you this glad news. But because you won't believe me, you'll be unable to say a word until the day of your son's birth. Every word I've spoken to you will come true on time—God's time." Meanwhile, the congregation waiting for Zachariah was getting restless, wondering what was keeping him so long in the sanctuary. When he came out and couldn't speak, they knew he had seen a vision. He continued speechless and had to use sign language with the people. When the course of his priestly assignment was completed, he went back home. It wasn't long before his wife, Elizabeth, conceived. She went off by herself for five months, relishing her pregnancy. "So, this is how God acts to remedy my unfortunate condition!" she said. In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to the Galilean village of Nazareth to a virgin engaged to be married to a man descended from David. His name was Joseph, and the virgin's name, Mary. Upon entering, Gabriel greeted her: Good morning! You're beautiful with God's beauty, Beautiful inside and out! God be with you. She was thoroughly shaken, wondering what was behind a greeting like that. But the angel assured her, "Mary, you have nothing to fear. God has a surprise for you: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son and call his name Jesus. He will be great, be called ‘Son of the Highest.' The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David; He will rule Jacob's house forever— no end, ever, to his kingdom." Mary said to the angel, "But how? I've never slept with a man." The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Highest hover over you; Therefore, the child you bring to birth will be called Holy, Son of God. "And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with God." And Mary said, Yes, I see it all now: I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say. Then the angel left her. Mary didn't waste a minute. She got up and traveled to a town in Judah in the hill country, straight to Zachariah's house, and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb leaped. She was filled with the Holy Spirit, and sang out exuberantly, You're so blessed among women, and the babe in your womb, also blessed! And why am I so blessed that the mother of my Lord visits me? The moment the sound of your greeting entered my ears, The babe in my womb skipped like a lamb for sheer joy. Blessed woman, who believed what God said, believed every word would come true! And Mary said, I'm bursting with God-news; I'm dancing the song of my Savior God. God took one good look at me, and look what happened— I'm the most fortunate woman on earth! What God has done for me will never be forgotten, the God whose very name is holy, set apart from all others. His mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before him. He bared his arm and showed his strength, scattered the bluffing braggarts. He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold. He embraced his chosen child, Israel; he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high. It's exactly what he promised, beginning with Abraham and right up to now. Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then went back to her own home. When Elizabeth was full-term in her pregnancy, she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives, seeing that God had overwhelmed her with mercy, celebrated with her. On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father. But his mother intervened: "No. He is to be called John." "But," they said, "no one in your family is named that." They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named. Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John." That took everyone by surprise. Surprise followed surprise—Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God! A deep, reverential fear settled over the neighborhood, and in all that Judean hill country people talked about nothing else. Everyone who heard about it took it to heart, wondering, "What will become of this child? Clearly, God has his hand in this." Then Zachariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he came and set his people free. He set the power of salvation in the center of our lives, and in the very house of David his servant, Just as he promised long ago through the preaching of his holy prophets: Deliverance from our enemies and every hateful hand; Mercy to our fathers, as he remembers to do what he said he'd do, What he swore to our father Abraham— a clean rescue from the enemy camp, So we can worship him without a care in the world, made holy before him as long as we live. And you, my child, "Prophet of the Highest," will go ahead of the Master to prepare his ways, Present the offer of salvation to his people, the forgiveness of their sins. Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us, Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. The child grew up, healthy and spirited. He lived out in the desert until the day he made his prophetic debut in Israel.

Luke 1:63
Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John." That took everyone by surprise. Surprise followed surprise—Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

God hath delivered me up to the ungodly,.... The evil or wicked one, for it is in the singular number; and designs either Satan, into whose hands God had not only delivered his substance, but his person, excepting his life; though it may be, and which is an objection to this sense, Job as yet knew it not; or else Eliphaz, or, the singular number being put for the plural, as the next clause explains it, all his friends, whom he in turn calls evil and wicked men, because of their treatment of him; or else the Sabeans and Chaldeans are intended, who were suffered to plunder him of his substance; the words are very applicable to Christ, who was delivered to the Gentiles, and into the hands of sinners and wicked men, and that by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, who with wicked hands took him, and crucified him, Matthew 20:19; or God "shut [him] up", or "delivered [him] bound" d, as the word signifies; which was literally true of Christ, who was bound by the Jews, and delivered first to the high priest, and then to the Roman governor, in such circumstances,

John 18:12;

and turned me over into the hands of the wicked; signifying the same as before, unless it should be rendered, "and caused me to decline", or "come down by the hands of the wicked" e that is, from his former state of prosperity and happiness, into the low circumstances in which he was, and which he was brought into by the means of wicked men, God suffering it so to be.

d יסגירני "vinctum me tradidit", Grotius, Michaelis, Schultens. e ירטני "divertere fecit a vita", Pagninus; "declinare me facit", Beza, Drusius, Mercerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God hath delivered me - Margin “shut me up.” The meaning is, that God had committed him to their hands as a prisoner or captive. They had power over him to do as they pleased.

To the ungodly - Into the hands of wicked people - meaning undoubtedly his professed friends.

And turned me over - The word used here (from ירט yârat) means to throw head long, to precipitate, to cast down. Here it means, “he has thrown me headlong into the hands of the wicked.”