Job 17
Job 17How to read the Hangul
beginning the Christ salvation
- Bold, larger (ˈ) = say it strong and a little longer — the stressed syllable.
- Faint = weak and short (a reduced vowel). Don't give every syllable equal weight.
- Tiny 으 · 트 · 스 = barely voiced. English has no vowel there — stop on the consonant.
- Whole word faint (the, of, and, to…) = light and quick in a sentence; stress the content words.
- Small f v θ ð r = sounds Korean doesn't have — f: upper teeth on the lower lip; v: the same, voiced; θ/ð: tongue tip between the teeth; r: tongue curled back, touching nothing.
Versions (up to 4)
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Chapter
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1
روحي تلفت. ايامي انطفأت. انما القبور لي
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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2
لولا المخاتلون عندي وعيني تبيت على مشاجراتهم.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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3
كن ضامني عند نفسك. من هو الذي يصفق يدي.
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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4
لانك منعت قلبهم عن الفطنة. لاجل ذلك لا ترفعهم.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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5
الذي يسلم الاصحاب للسلب تتلف عيون بنيه.
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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6
اوقفني مثلا للشعوب وصرت للبصق في الوجه.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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7
كلت عيني من الحزن واعضائي كلها كالظل.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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8
يتعجب المستقيمون من هذا والبريء ينتهض على الفاجر.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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9
اما الصدّيق فيستمسك بطريقه والطاهر اليدين يزداد قوة
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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10
ولكن ارجعوا كلكم وتعالوا فلا اجد فيكم حكيما.
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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11
ايامي قد عبرت. مقاصدي إرث قلبي قد انتزعت.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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12
يجعلون الليل نهارا نورا قريبا للظلمة.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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13
اذا رجوت الهاوية بيتا لي وفي الظلام مهدت فراشي
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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14
وقلت للقبر انت ابي وللدود انت امي واختي
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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15
فاين اذا آمالي. آمالي. من يعاينها.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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16
تهبط الى مغاليق الهاوية اذ ترتاح معا في التراب
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.