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1Then Job replied:

1In response, Job said:

2"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

3Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.

3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!

4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."

7"Though I cry, 'Violence!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.

8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

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

9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!

10He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope 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.

11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.

11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.

12His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."

13"He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;

14My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

15My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.

16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly.

17My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.

18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.

19All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.

19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."

21"Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.

22Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

23"Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book

24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!

24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.

25I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on 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 after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;

26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,

27I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns 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."

28"If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,'

28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

29you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is 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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