| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1Then Job answered: | 1Then Job answered and said: |
| 2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. | 2“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. |
| 3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? | 3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? |
| 4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. | 4I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. |
| 5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. | 5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. |
| 6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? | 6“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? |
| 7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. | 7Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. |
| 8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me. | 8And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. |
| 9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes. | 9He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. |
| 10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me. | 10Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me. |
| 11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked. | 11God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. |
| 12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; | 12I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; |
| 13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground. | 13his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. |
| 14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior. | 14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. |
| 15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust. | 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. |
| 16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes; | 16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, |
| 17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure. | 17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
| 18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest. | 18“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. |
| 19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. | 19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high. |
| 20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. | 20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, |
| 21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor! | 21that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor. |
| 22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return. | 22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return. |
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