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Job 31:22
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then let my shoulder be wrenched out of place! Let my arm be torn from its socket!
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.
If I have, then let my arm fall off my shoulder and be broken at the joint.
then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.
[Then] let my arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.
Then let my shoulder fall away from its socket, And my arm be broken off at the elbow.
then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
my schuldre falle fro his ioynt, and myn arm with hise boonys be al to-brokun.
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
I hope that arm will fall from its socket.
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.
then let my arm fall from its socket, and let my forearm be broken at the elbow!
[Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
If I ever did that, may my arm be pulled from its socket and fall from my shoulder!
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arme be broken from the bone.
let my shoulder fall out of place, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.
then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, & mine arme be broken from the bone.
Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let it be broken from the bone.
then may my arms be broken; may they be torn from my shoulders.
Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;
Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
Then let myne arme fall fro my shoulder, and myne arme holes be broken from the bone.
let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.
then let my shoulder blade fall from my back,and my arm be pulled from its socket.
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.
then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
let my shoulder fall from the back, and let my arm be broken from the elbow.
My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.
The let myne arme fall fro my shulder, & myne arme holes be broken from the ioyntes.
May my shoulder fall from its socket, And my arm be broken off at the elbow.
Then let my arm fall from my shoulder, Let my arm be torn from the socket.
Let my shoulder fall from the socket, And my arm be broken off at the elbow.
Let my shoulder fall from the socket,And my arm be broken off at the elbow.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
let: Job 31:10, Job 31:40, Joshua 22:22, Joshua 22:23, Psalms 7:4, Psalms 7:5, Psalms 137:6
bone: or, chanel bone
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:6 - General Numbers 5:22 - the woman Deuteronomy 16:19 - wrest
Cross-References
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade,.... With which the upper part of it is connected; let it be disjointed from it, or rot and drop off from it; a dreadful calamity this, to lose an arm and the use of it, to have it full off immediately, as a judgment from God, and in just retaliation for lifting up an hand or arm against the fatherless; as Jeroboam's arm withered when he put it forth from the altar, and ordered hands to be laid upon the prophet for crying against the altar, 1 Kings 13:4; and mine arm be broken from the bone; from the channel bone, as the margin of our Bibles, or rather from the elbow, the lower part of the arm and so may be rendered, "or mine arm", c. Eliphaz had brought a charge against Job, that the arms of the fatherless had been broken, and suggests that they had been broken by him, or by his orders, Job 22:9 and Job here wishes, that if that was the case, that his own arm was broken: such imprecations are not to be made in common, or frequently, and only when a man's innocence cannot be vindicated but by an appeal to the omniscient God; an instance somewhat like this, see in Psalms 137:5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then let mine arm - The strong language which Job uses here, shows his consciousness of innocence, and his detestation of the offences to which he here refers, Job 31:16-22. The word rendered “arm” here (כתף kâthêph) means properly the shoulder. Isaiah 46:7; Isaiah 49:22; Numbers 7:9; compare the notes at Isaiah 11:14. There is no instance, it is believed, unless this is one, in which it means arm, and the meaning here is, that he wished, if he had been guilty, his shoulder might separate from the blade. So Herder, Rosenmuller, Umbreit, and Noyes render it; and so the Vulgate and the Septuagint.
From my shoulder-blade - The scapula - the flat bone to which the upper arm is attached. The wish of Job is, that the shoulder might separate from that, and of course the arm would be useless. Such a strong imprecation implies a firm consciousness of innocence.
And mine arm - The word arm here denotes the forearm - the arm from the elbow to the fingers.
From the bone - Margin, “the chanelbone.” Literally, “from the reed” - מקנה miqâneh. Umbreit renders it, Schneller als ein Rohr - quicker than a reed. The word קנה qâneh means properly a reed, cane, calamus (see the notes at Isaiah 43:24), and is here applied to the upper arm, or arm above the elbow, from its resemblance to a reed or cane. It is applied, also, to the arm or branch of a chandelier, or candlestick, Exodus 25:31, and to the rod or beam of a balance, Isa. xlvi. 6. The meaning here is, that he wished that his arm should be broken at the elbow, or the forearm be separated from the upper arm, if he were guilty of the sins which he had specified. There is allusion, probably, and there is great force and propriety in the allusion, to what he had said in Job 31:2 l: “If his arm had been lifted up against an orphan, he prayed that it might fall powerless.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:22. Let mine arm fall — Mr. Good, as a medical man, is at home in the translation of this verse: -
"May my shoulder-bone be shivered at the blade,
And mine arm be broken off at the socket."
Let judgment fall particularly on those parts which have either done wrong, or refused to do right when in their power.
