| Berean Study Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Then Job answered: | 1Then Job answered, |
| 2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. | 2"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all. |
| 3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? | 3"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer? |
| 4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. | 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. |
| 5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. | 5"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain. |
| 6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? | 6"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me? |
| 7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. | 7"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company. |
| 8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me. | 8"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. |
| 9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes. | 9"His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me. |
| 10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against 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. |
| 11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked. | 11"God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked. |
| 12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; | 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. |
| 13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground. | 13"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground. |
| 14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior. | 14"He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior. |
| 15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust. | 15"I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust. |
| 16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes; | 16"My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids, |
| 17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure. | 17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. |
| 18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest. | 18"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry. |
| 19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. | 19"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high. |
| 20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. | 20"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God. |
| 21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor! | 21"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor! |
| 22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return. | 22"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. |
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