Job 19
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1Then Job answered and said,1In response, Job said:
2How long will ye vex my soul, 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 have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,
6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.
9He hath stripped me of 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 hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed 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 hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.
12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.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, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day 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 though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed 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."
28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye 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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