God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands 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.
- BSB God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches 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.
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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).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- Ps 7:14Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
- Ps 31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
- Job 1:13–19It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- 1 Sam 24:18You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.
- John 19:16So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
- Rom 11:32For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
- 2 Cor 12:7By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
- Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
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