God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
Parallel translations
- WEB God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
- KJV God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
- NKJV God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
- NASB “God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
- NLT God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.
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Quick answer
Job laments that God has handed him over to the ungodly and the wicked. He feels abandoned to his tormentors.
Overview
Job complains that God has delivered him into the power of evil men, as if forsaken by his protector. The lament voices the bewilderment of the righteous who suffer at the hands of the wicked. Yet Scripture shows God's sovereign hand even in such delivering over, supremely when his own Son was handed to wicked men according to God's set purpose (Acts 2:23).
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
- Ps 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
- Ps 31:8You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
- Job 1:13–19One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- 1 Sam 24:18And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- John 19:16Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away.
- Rom 11:32For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
- 2 Cor 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
- Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
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