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1In response, Job said: | 1Then Job replied: |
2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! | 2"I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you! |
3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? | 3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing? |
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 also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches 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 my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief. |
6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?" | 6"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away. |
7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. | 7Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household. |
8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. | 8You have shriveled me up--and it has become a witness; my gauntness 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. | 9God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes. |
10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me. | 10People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me. |
11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. | 11God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into 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. | 12All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target; |
13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. | 13his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground. |
14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior. | 14Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior. |
15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust. | 15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust. |
16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids, | 16My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes; |
17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure." | 17yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure. |
18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. | 18"Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry 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; my advocate is on high. |
20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, | 20My intercessor is my friend 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. | 21on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend. |
22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return." | 22"Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return. |
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