| New American Standard Bible 1995 | International Standard Version |
| 1Then Job answered, | 1In response, Job said: |
| 2"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all. | 2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! |
| 3"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer? | 3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? |
| 4"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you. | 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 |
| 5"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain. | 5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain. |
| 6"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me? | 6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?" |
| 7"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company. | 7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. |
| 8"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. | 8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. |
| 9"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me. | 9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me. |
| 10"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me. | 10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me. |
| 11"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked. | 11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. |
| 12"I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target. | 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. |
| 13"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground. | 13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. |
| 14"He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior. | 14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior. |
| 15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust. | 15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust. |
| 16"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids, | 16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids, |
| 17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. | 17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure." |
| 18"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry. | 18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. |
| 19"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high. | 19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high. |
| 20"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God. | 20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, |
| 21"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor! | 21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor. |
| 22"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. | 22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return." |
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