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Job 30

Job 30:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou art βbecome
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
cruel
'akzar (Hebrew #393)
violent; by implication deadly; also (in a good sense) brave
KJV usage: cruel, fierce.
Pronounce: ak-zawr'
Origin: from an unused root (apparently meaning to act harshly)
to me: with γthy strong
`otsem (Hebrew #6108)
power; hence, body
KJV usage: might, strong, substance.
Pronounce: o'-tsem
Origin: from 6105
hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
thou opposest
satam (Hebrew #7852)
properly, to lurk for, i.e. persecute
KJV usage: hate, oppose self against.
Pronounce: saw-tam'
Origin: a primitive root
thyself against me.
β
turned to be.
γ
the strength of thy hand.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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become cruel.
Heb. turned to be cruel.
Job 7:20‑21• 20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
(Job 7:20‑21)
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Job 10:14‑17• 14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
(Job 10:14‑17)
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Job 13:25‑28• 25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
(Job 13:25‑28)
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Job 16:9‑14• 9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
(Job 16:9‑14)
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Job 19:6‑9• 6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
(Job 19:6‑9)
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Psa. 77:7‑9• 7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?
8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
(Psa. 77:7‑9)
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Jer. 30:14• 14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. (Jer. 30:14)
thy strong hand.
Heb. the strength of thy hand.
 Oh, if Job had but known the tender love which would have spared him from all this suffering, but for his own good! He knows not that “the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy.” That will come when he sees “the end of the Lord” —the purpose that is in view (Jas. 5:11). (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.