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Job 16:11

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16:11God abandons me to evil29 men,30

and throws31 me into the hands of wicked men.

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  1. 29 The word עֲוִיל (’avil) means “child,” and this cannot be right here. If it is read as עַוָּל (’avval) as in Job 27:7 it would be the unrighteous.
  2. 30 Job does not refer here to his friends, but more likely to the wicked men who set about to destroy him and his possessions, or to the rabble in ch. 30.
  3. 31 The word יִרְטֵנִי (yirteni) does not derive from the root רָטָה (ratah) as would fit the pointing in the , but from יָרַט (yarat), cognate to Arabic warrata, “to throw; to hurl.” E. Dhorme (Job, 236) thinks that since the normal form would have been יִירְטֵנִי (yiréteni), it is probable that one of the yods (י) would have affected the word עֲוִיל (’avil)—but that does not make much sense.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

God gives me up to the ungodly

and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

God has turned me over to the ungodly

and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

God hands me over to the unjust;

he throws me to the wicked.

NLTNew Living Translation

God has handed me over to sinners.

He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

God delivers me to an evil one,

and he casts me into the hands of the wicked.

KJV 1900King James Version

God hath delivered me to the ungodly,

And turned me over into the hands of the wicked.