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4Q101 PaleoJobc 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 have a desire to the work of your hands. You would call, and I would answer you. 16 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;
[1] This scroll uses fewer vowel letters in spelling than the MT, contrary to most of the Dead Sea Scrolls. |
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