| King James Bible | NET Bible |
| 1Then Job answered and said, | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | 2"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? |
| 3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. | 3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me! |
| 4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. | 4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern! |
| 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: | 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me, |
| 6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. | 6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net. |
| 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. | 7"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. | 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths. |
| 9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | 9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken 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 tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree. |
| 11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. | 11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies. |
| 12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. | 12His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent. |
| 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. | 13"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. |
| 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. | 14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. |
| 15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. | 15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. |
| 16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. | 16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. |
| 17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. | 17My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. |
| 18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. | 18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. |
| 19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. | 19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom 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. | 20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only 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. | 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | 22Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh? |
| 23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! | 23"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, |
| 24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! | 24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever! |
| 25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: | 25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth. |
| 26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: | 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet 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, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me. |
| 28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? | 28If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!' |
| 29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye 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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