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1Then Job answered and said: | 1In response, Job said: |
2“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? | 2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying? |
3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? | 3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me! |
4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. | 4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me. |
5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, | 5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, |
6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. | 6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net." |
7Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. | 7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. |
8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. | 8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways. |
9He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. | 9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head! |
10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. | 10He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree. |
11He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. | 11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. |
12His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. | 12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent." |
13“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. | 13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; |
14My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. | 14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. |
15The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. | 15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner. |
16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. | 16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. |
17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. | 17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! |
18Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. | 18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. |
19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. | 19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. |
20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | 20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." |
21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! | 21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me. |
22Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? | 22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick? |
23“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | 23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book |
24Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! | 24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. |
25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. | 25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. |
26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, | 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, |
27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! | 27whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won't be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire." |
28If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’ | 28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?' |
29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” | 29Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment." |
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