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Job 5:16b

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5:16Thus the poor have hope,

and iniquity61 shuts its mouth.62

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Footnotes

  1. 61 Other translations render this “injustice” (, , ) or “unrighteousness” ().
  2. 62 The verse summarizes the result of God’s intervention in human affairs, according to Eliphaz’ idea that even-handed justice prevails. Ps 107:42 parallels v. 16b.

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So the poor have hope,

and injustice shuts her mouth.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So the poor have hope,

and injustice shuts its mouth.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So the poor have hope,

and injustice shuts its mouth.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

And so at last the poor have hope,

and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So there is hope for the powerless,

and wickedness shuts its mouth.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

So the poor hath hope,

And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

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