| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Then Job spoke again: | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2“How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words? | 2How long will you torment me and crush me with words? |
| 3You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly. | 3You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame. |
| 4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours. | 4Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me. |
| 5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin. | 5If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me, |
| 6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net. | 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net. |
| 7“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice. | 7I cry out: "Violence!" but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness. | 8He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; He has veiled my paths with darkness. |
| 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. | 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. |
| 10He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree. | 10He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree. |
| 11His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy. | 11His anger burns against me, and He regards me as one of His enemies. |
| 12His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent. | 12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and camp around my tent. |
| 13“My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me. | 13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. |
| 14My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me. | 14My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me. |
| 15My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them. | 15My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. |
| 16When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him! | 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth. |
| 17My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family. | 17My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family finds me repulsive. |
| 18Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me. | 18Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me. |
| 19My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me. | 19All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me. |
| 20I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth. | 20My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me. | 21Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God's hand has struck me. |
| 22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough? | 22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? |
| 23“Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument, | 23I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll |
| 24carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock. | 24or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead! |
| 25“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. | 25But I know my living Redeemer, and He will stand on the dust at last. |
| 26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! | 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh. |
| 27I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought! | 27I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me. |
| 28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’? | 28If you say, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?" |
| 29You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.” | 29then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment. |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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