International Standard Version | New Living Translation |
1In response, Job said: | 1Then Job spoke again: |
2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying? | 2“How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words? |
3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me! | 3You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly. |
4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me. | 4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours. |
5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, | 5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin. |
6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net." | 6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net. |
7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. | 7“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice. |
8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways. | 8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness. |
9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head! | 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. |
10He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree. | 10He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree. |
11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. | 11His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy. |
12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent." | 12His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent. |
13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; | 13“My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me. |
14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. | 14My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me. |
15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner. | 15My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them. |
16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. | 16When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him! |
17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! | 17My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family. |
18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. | 18Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me. |
19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. | 19My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me. |
20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." | 20I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth. |
21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me. | 21“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me. |
22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick? | 22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough? |
23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book | 23“Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument, |
24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. | 24carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock. |
25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. | 25“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. |
26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, | 26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! |
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." | 27I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought! |
28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?' | 28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’? |
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." | 29You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.” |
The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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