King James Bible

New Living Translation

1Then Job answered and said,

1Then Job spoke again:

2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

2“How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?

3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

3You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.

4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.

5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.

6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.

7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

7“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.

8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.

9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

10He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.

11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

11His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.

12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

12His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.

13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

13“My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.

14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

14My family is gone, and my close 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 servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

16When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him!

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 rejected by my own family.

18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

18Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.

19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

19My close friends detest me. Those I loved 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 have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death 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“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.

22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?

23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

23“Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,

24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

24carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.

25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

25“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.

26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body 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.

27I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!

28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?

29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

29You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.”

King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com.

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