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1Then Job answered:

1In response, Job said:

2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your 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; you shamelessly mistreat me.

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

4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me 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 disgrace against me,

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

6then understand that it is God who 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."

7Though I cry out, ‘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 veiled my paths with 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 until 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, and He counts me among His enemies.

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

12His troops advance together; they construct a 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."

13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

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

14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

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

15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

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

16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore 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 repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

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

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

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

19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

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

20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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

21Have 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 persecute 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?

23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

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

24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

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

25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon 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.

26Even 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 will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. 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."

28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

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

29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a 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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