Księga Hioba 31:35

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Obym miał kogo, coby mię wysłuchał; ale oto ten jest znak mój, że Wszechmogący sam odpowie za mię, i księga, którą napisał przeciwnik mój.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Oby ten był, co by mię wysłuchał, gdyż ten jest cel mój, aby Wszechmocny odpowiedział za mię, chociażby też nieprzyjaciel mój pisał przeciw mnie pozew.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Obym miał kogo, coby mię wysłuchał; ale oto ten jest znak mój, że Wszechmogący sam odpowie za mię, i księga, którą napisał przeciwnik mój.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
to obym nie miał nikogo, kto by mnie wysłuchał! Oto mój podpis! Niech mi odpowie Wszechmocny! Oby mój przeciwnik napisał oskarżenie!

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
O, gdybym także miał kogoś, kto by mnie wysłuchał! Oto mój podpis – Wszechmocny niech mi odpowie! Gdybym także miał pismo, które napisał mój oskarżyciel;

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Obym miał kogoś, kto by mnie wysłuchał! Oto moja prośba, aby Wszechmogący odpowiedział mi i aby mój wróg napisał księgę.

Biblia Warszawska
Obym miał kogo, kto by mnie wysłuchał! Oto mój podpis! Niech mi odpowie Wszechmocny! Obym miał oskarżenie napisane przez przeciwnika!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Oh: Job 13:3, Job 17:3, Job 23:3-7, Job 33:6, Job 38:1-3, Job 40:4, Job 40:5

my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me: or, my sign is that the Almighty will answer me, Job 13:21, Job 13:22, Psalms 26:1

mine: Job 13:24, Job 19:11, Job 19:23, Job 19:24, Job 33:10, Job 33:11, Matthew 5:25

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:23 - write these 1 Samuel 12:5 - The Lord Job 9:3 - he will contend Job 9:19 - who shall Job 10:7 - Thou knowest Job 11:5 - General Job 16:21 - plead Job 19:7 - no judgment Job 38:3 - for Isaiah 41:1 - let us Jeremiah 36:2 - a roll Habakkuk 2:1 - when I am reproved

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Oh, that one would hear me!.... Or, "who will give me a hearer?" l Oh, that I had one! not a nearer of him as a teacher and instructor of many, as he had been, Job 4:3; or only to hear what he had delivered in this chapter; but to hear his cause, and hear him plead his own cause in a judiciary way; he does not mean an ordinary hearer, one that, comes out of curiosity into courts of judicature to hear causes tried, what is said on both sides, and how they will issue; but, as Bar Tzemach paraphrases it,

"who shall give me a judge that shall hear me,''

that would hear his cause patiently, examine it thoroughly, and judge impartially, which is the business of judges to do, Deuteronomy 1:16; he did not care who it was, if he had but such an one; though he seems to have respect to God himself, from what he says in the next clause, and wishes that he would but hear, try, and judge his cause:

behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me: answer to what he had said, or had further to say in his own defence; this is a request he had made before, and now repeats it, see Job 13:22; some render it, "behold my mark", or "scope" m; so Mr. Broughton, "behold my scope in this"; this is what I aim at, what I design and mean by wishing for an hearer, that the Almighty himself would take the cause in hand, and give me an answer: or, "behold my sign" n; the sign of my innocence, appealing to God, leaving my cause to be heard, tried, and judged by him, who is my witness, and will answer for me; see Job 16:19; as well as desiring mine adversary to put down in writing what he has against me; or, "behold my signature" o; the plea I have given is signed by my own hand: now "let the Almighty answer me"; a bold expression indeed, and a making too free with the Almighty, and was one of those speeches Job was to be blamed for, and for which he was after humbled and repented of:

and [that] mine adversary had written a book; or "the man of my contention" p: either that contended for him, as Aben Ezra, that pleaded for him, was his advocate in court, whom he would have take a brief of him, and so distinctly plead his cause; or rather that contended against him, a court adversary, by whom he means either his three friends, or some one of them, whom he more especially took for his enemy; see Job 16:9; and who he wishes had brought a bill of indictment, and put down in a book, on a paper in writing, the charge he had against him; that so it might be clearly known what could be alleged against him; and that it might be particularly and distinctly examined; when he doubted not but he should be able to give a full answer to every article in it; and that the very bill itself would carry in it a justification of him: or it may be, rather he means God himself, who carried it towards him as an adversary, at least in a providential way; he had before requested that be would show him wherefore he contended with him, Job 10:2; and now he desires he would give in writing his charge against him, being fully confident, that if he had but the opportunity of answering to it before him, he should be able sufficiently to vindicate himself; and that he should come off with honour, as follows.

l מי יתן לי שמע לי "quis dabit mihi audientem me?" Montanus; "utinam sit mihi auditor", Tigurine version. m הן תוי "en scopum meum", Junius Tremellius. n "Ecce signum meum", Pagninus, Montanus, Beza, Bolducius so Ben Gersom. o "En Signaturam meam", Schultens. p איש ריבי "vir litis meae", Montanus, Beza, Bolducius, Drusius, Michaelis; so Vatablus, Mercerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O that one would hear me! - This refers undoubtedly to God. It is, literally, “Who will give to me one hearing me;” and the wish is that which he has so often expressed, that he might get his cause fairly before God. He feels assured that there would be a favorable verdict, if there could be a fair judicial investigation; compare the notes at Job 13:3.

Behold, my desire is - Margin, “Or, my sign is that ‘the Almighty will answer me.’” The word rendered in the text desire, and in the margin sign, (תו tâv), means properly a mark, or sign, and is also the name of the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Then the word means, according to Gesenius (Lex.), a mark, or cross, as subscribed to a bill of complaint; hence, the bill itself, or, as we should say, the pleading. According to this, Job means to say that he was ready for trial, and that there was his bill of complaint, or his pleading, or his bill of defense. So Herder renders it, “See my defense.” Coverdale, “Lo, this is my cause.” Miss Smith renders it, “Behold my gage!” Umbreit, Meinel Kagschrift - My accusation. There can be no doubt that it refers to the forms of a judicial investigation, and that the idea is, that Job was ready for the trial. “Here” says he, “is my defense, my argument, my pleading, my bill! I wait that my adversary should come to the trial.” The name used here as given to the bill or pleading (תו tâv, mark, or sign), probably had its origin from the fact that some mark was affixed to it - of some such significance as a seal - by which it was certified to be the real bill of the party, and by which he acknowledged it as his own. This might have been done by signing his name, or by some conventional mark that was common in those times.

That the Almighty would answer me - That is, answer me as on trial; that the cause might be fairly brought to an issue. This wish he had frequently expressed.

And that mine adversary - God; regarded as the opposite party in the suit.

Had written a book - Or, would write down his charge. The wish is, that what God had against him were in like manner entered in a bill or pleading that the charge might be fairly investigated. On the word book, compare the notes at Job 19:23. It means here a pleading in court, a bill, or charge against anyone. There is no irreverence in the language here. Job is anxious that his true character should be investigated, and that the great matter at issue should be determined; and he draws his language and illustrations from well-known practices in courts of law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:35. O that one would hear me! — I wish to have a fair and full hearing: I am grievously accused; and have no proper opportunity of clearing myself, and establishing my own innocence.

Behold, my desire is — Or, הן תוי hen tavi, "There is my pledge." I bind myself, on a great penalty, to come into court, and abide the issue.

That the Almighty would answer me — That he would call this case immediately before himself; and oblige my adversary to come into court, to put his accusations into a legal form, that I might have the opportunity of vindicating myself in the presence of a judge who would hear dispassionately my pleadings, and bring the cause to a righteous issue.

And that mine adversary had written a book — That he would not indulge himself in vague accusations, but would draw up a proper bill of indictment, that I might know to what I had to plead, and find the accusation in a tangible form.