Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
17 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “your” →
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will .
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief .
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
