| Holman Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1Then Job answered: | 1Then Job answered and said, |
| 2How long will you torment me and crush me with words? | 2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? |
| 3You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame. | 3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. |
| 4Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me. | 4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. |
| 5If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me, | 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: |
| 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net. | 6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. |
| 7I cry out: "Violence!" but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice. | 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. |
| 8He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; He has veiled my paths with darkness. | 8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. |
| 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. | 9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. |
| 10He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree. | 10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. |
| 11His anger burns against me, and He regards me as one of His enemies. | 11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. |
| 12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and camp around my tent. | 12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. |
| 13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. | 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. |
| 14My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me. | 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
| 15My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. | 15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. |
| 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth. | 16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. |
| 17My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family finds me repulsive. | 17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. |
| 18Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me. | 18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. |
| 19All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me. | 19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. |
| 20My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | 20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
| 21Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God's hand has struck me. | 21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. |
| 22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? | 22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 23I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll | 23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! |
| 24or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead! | 24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! |
| 25But I know my living Redeemer, and He will stand on the dust at last. | 25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: |
| 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh. | 26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: |
| 27I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me. | 27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. |
| 28If you say, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?" | 28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? |
| 29then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment. | 29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. |
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