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Job 5:22

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5:22You will laugh at destruction and famine78

and need not79 be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 78 The repetition of “destruction” and “famine” here has prompted some scholars to delete the whole verse. Others try to emend the text. The renders them as “the unrighteous and the lawless.” But there is no difficulty in having the repetition of the words as found in the . The word for “famine” is an Aramaic word found again in 30:3. The book of Job has a number of Aramaisms that are used to form an alternative parallel expression (see notes on “witness” in 16:19).
  2. 79 The negated jussive is used here to express the conviction that something cannot or should not happen ( §109.e).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

At destruction and famine you shall laugh,

and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You will laugh at destruction and famine,

and need not fear the wild animals.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You will laugh at destruction and hunger

and not fear the land’s wild creatures.

NLTNew Living Translation

You will laugh at destruction and famine;

wild animals will not terrify you.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

At destruction and famine you shall laugh,

and you shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.

KJV 1900King James Version

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:

Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.