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Young's Literal Translation

Job 19:18

Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Children;   Friendship;   Speaking;   Thompson Chain Reference - Child Vice;   Children;   Home;   Job;   Vices;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Wicked;   Contempt;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leper;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Even young boys scorn me.When I stand up, they mock me.
Hebrew Names Version
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
King James Version
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
English Standard Version
Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
New Century Version
Even the little boys hate me and talk about me when I leave.
New English Translation
Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.
Amplified Bible
"Even young children despise me; When I get up, they speak against me.
New American Standard Bible
"Even young children despise me; I stand up and they speak against me.
World English Bible
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Even young children reject me;I rise up, and they speak against me.
Berean Standard Bible
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
Contemporary English Version
Young children can't stand me, and when I come near, they make fun.
Complete Jewish Bible
Even young children despise me — if I stand up, they start jeering at me.
Darby Translation
Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Even little children make fun of me. When I get up, they say bad things about me.
George Lamsa Translation
Yea, even the wicked despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.
Good News Translation
Children despise me and laugh when they see me.
Lexham English Bible
Little boys also despise me; when I rise, then they talk against me.
Literal Translation
Even young children despise me; I rise, and they speak against me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee the very deserte fooles despyse me, and when I am gone from them, they speake euell vpon me.
American Standard Version
Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
Bible in Basic English
Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Even urchins despised me; if I arise, they speak against me.
King James Version (1611)
Yea, yong children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.
English Revised Version
Even young children despise me; if I arise, they speak against me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also foolis dispisiden me; and whanne Y was goon awei fro hem, thei bacbitiden me.
Update Bible Version
Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
New King James Version
Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.
New Living Translation
Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
New Life Bible
Even young children hate me. When I get up they speak against me.
New Revised Standard
Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.
Revised Standard Version
Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.

Contextual Overview

8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth. 9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. 10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. 11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries. 12 Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent. 13 My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. 14 Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, 15 Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes. 16 To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him. 17 My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Yea: Job 30:1, Job 30:12, 2 Kings 2:23, Isaiah 3:5

young children: or, the wicked

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him,
Genesis 19:8
lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'
Genesis 19:11
and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.
Genesis 19:12
And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;
Genesis 32:26
and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.'
Isaiah 45:11
Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former: Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning the work of My hands, ye command Me.'
Acts 9:13
And Ananias answered, `Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evils he did to Thy saints in Jerusalem,
Acts 10:14
And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, young children despised me,.... Having related what he met with within doors from those in his own house, the strangers and proselytes in it, his maidens and menservants, and even from his own wife, he proceeds to give an account of what befell him without; young children, who had learned of their parents, having observed them to treat him with contempt, mocked and scoffed at him, and said, there sits old Job, that nasty creature, with his boils and ulcers; or using some such contemptuous expression, as "wicked man"; so some translate the word k; he was scorned and condemned by profane persons, who might tease him with his religion, and ask, where was his God? and bid him observe the effect and issue of his piety and strict course of living, and see what it was all come to, or what were the fruits of it: the Vulgate Latin version renders it "fools", that is, not idiots, but such as are so in a moral sense, and so signifies as before; and as these make mock at sin, and a jest of religion, it is no wonder that they despised good men: the word is rendered by a learned man l, the "most needy clients", who were dependent on him, and were supported by him; but this coincides with Job 19:15;

I arose, and they spoke against me: he got up from his seat, either to go about his business, and do what he had to do; and they spoke against him as he went along, and followed him with their reproaches, as children will go after persons in a body they make sport of; or he rose up in a condescending manner to them, when they ought to have rose up to him, and reverenced and honoured him; and this he did to win upon them, and gain their good will and respect; or to admonish them, chastise and correct them, for their insolence and disrespect to him; but it signified nothing, they went on calling him names, and speaking evil against him, and loading him with scoffs and reproaches.

k עוילים "iniqui", Pagninus, Montanus; "homines nequam", Tigurine version; so Ben Gersom. l "Clientes egentissimi", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, young children - Margin, or “the wicked.” This difference between the text and the margin arises from the ambiguity of the original word - עוילים ăvı̂ylı̂ym. The word עויל ăvı̂yl (whence our word “evil”) means sometimes the wicked, or the ungodly, as in Job 16:11. It may also mean a child, or suckling, (from עוּל ûl - to give milk, to suckle, 1 Samuel 7:7-10; Genesis 22:13 : Ps. 77:71; Isaiah 40:11; compare Isaiah 49:15; Isaiah 65:20,) and is doubtless used in this sense here. Jerome, however, renders it “stulti - fools.” The Septuagint, strangely enough, “They renounced me forever.” Dr. Good renders it, “Even the dependents.” So Schultens, Etiam clientes egentissimi - “even the most needy clients.” But the reference is probably to children who are represented as withholding from him the respect which was due to age.

I arose, and they spake against me - “When I rise up, instead of regarding and treating me with respect, they make me an object of contempt and sport.” Compare the account of the respect which had formerly been shown him in Job 29:8.


 
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