4Q101 PaleoJob^c

Language: Hebrew using the PaleoHebrew script

Date: 225-150 B.C.

Location: Qumran Cave 4

Contents: Job 13:18-27; 14:13-18

 

Job 13

18 See now, I have set my cause in order.

I know that I am righteous.

19 Who is he who will contend with me?

For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

 

20 “Only don’t do two things to me;

then I will not hide myself from your face:

[..]

23 How many are my iniquities and sins?

Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

24 Why hide you your face,

and hold me for your enemy?

25 Will you harass a driven leaf?

Will you pursue the dry stubble?

26 For you write bitter things against me,

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth[1]:

27 You also put my feet in the stocks,

and mark all my paths.

You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

[..]

Job 14

13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,

that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past,

that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14 If a man dies, shall he live again?

All the days of my warfare would I wait,

until my release should come.

15 You would call, and I would answer you.

You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

You would call, and I would answer you.

16 But now you count my steps.

Don’t you watch over my sin?

17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.

You fasten up my iniquity.

 

18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.

The rock is removed out of its place;