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1In response, Job said: | 1Then Job answered: |
2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! | 2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. |
3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? | 3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? |
4"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you | 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. |
5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain. | 5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. |
6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?" | 6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? |
7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. | 7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. |
8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. | 8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me. |
9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me. | 9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes. |
10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me. | 10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me. |
11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. | 11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked. |
12"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target. | 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; |
13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. | 13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground. |
14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior. | 14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior. |
15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust. | 15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust. |
16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids, | 16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes; |
17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure." | 17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure. |
18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. | 18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest. |
19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high. | 19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. |
20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, | 20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. |
21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor. | 21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor! |
22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return." | 22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return. |
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