| Holman Christian Standard Bible | NET Bible |
| 1Then Job answered: | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2How long will you torment me and crush me with words? | 2"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? |
| 3You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame. | 3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me! |
| 4Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me. | 4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern! |
| 5If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me, | 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me, |
| 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net. | 6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net. |
| 7I cry out: "Violence!" but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice. | 7"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; He has veiled my paths with darkness. | 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths. |
| 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. | 9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head. |
| 10He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree. | 10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree. |
| 11His anger burns against me, and He regards me as one of His enemies. | 11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies. |
| 12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and camp around my tent. | 12His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent. |
| 13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. | 13"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. |
| 14My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me. | 14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. |
| 15My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. | 15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. |
| 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth. | 16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. |
| 17My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family finds me repulsive. | 17My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. |
| 18Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me. | 18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. |
| 19All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me. | 19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me. |
| 20My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | 20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth. |
| 21Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God's hand has struck me. | 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? | 22Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh? |
| 23I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll | 23"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, |
| 24or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead! | 24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever! |
| 25But I know my living Redeemer, and He will stand on the dust at last. | 25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth. |
| 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh. | 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, |
| 27I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me. | 27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me. |
| 28If you say, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?" | 28If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!' |
| 29then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment. | 29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment." |
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