Job 13:16

“This too will be my salvation, for no godless one will come before him.”
Job 13:16 · direct translation from the Hebrew

With the Hebrew beneath

This tooגַּם הוּאwill be my salvation,לִי לִישׁוּעָהforכִּיnoלֹאgodless oneחָנֵףwill comeיָבוֹאbefore him.לְפָנָיו

Paul uses, without a formula, the words of the Septuagint of Job 13:16: “this will turn out for me for salvation.”

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Greek of the New Testament: οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι τοῦτό μοι ἀποβήσεται εἰς σωτηρίαν διὰ τῆς ὑμῶν δεήσεως καὶ ἐπιχορηγίας τοῦ πνεύματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ

Hebrew (Masoretic text): גַּם הוּא לִי לִישׁוּעָה כִּי לֹא לְפָנָיו חָנֵף יָבוֹא

Septuagint (Job 13:16 in the Septuagint numbering): καὶ τοῦτό μοι ἀποβήσεται εἰς σωτηρίαν, οὐ γὰρ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ δόλος εἰσελεύσεται.

The Greek of the NT matches the Septuagint word for word in 5 consecutive words: “τοῦτό μοι ἀποβήσεται εἰς σωτηρίαν.”

Septuagint, Swete’s text, First1KGreek transcription (with reading errors), CC BY-SA 4.0

will be my salvationישׁוּעָהyshua

salvation

Salvation: the help with which God delivers from danger; also victory. The name "Jesus" (Yeshua) comes from the same root.

godless oneחָנֵףchanef

godless, profane

Godless: one who lives without regard for God; defiled, profane.

will comeיָבוֹאyavo

come

To come, arrive: "days are coming".

before himפָנָיfanay

before

Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.

Other books that tell the same thing or quote these words.

Paul uses, without a formula, the words of the Septuagint of Job 13:16: “this will turn out for me for salvation.”

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Job 13:16

¹⁶This too will be my salvation, for no godless one will come before him.

¹⁹for I know that this will turn out for me for salvation through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus the Messiah,

15Look, though he slays me, for him I will wait; yet my ways to his face I will argue.

16 · This verse (above)

17Listen closely to my word, and let my declaration be in your ears.