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1In response, Job said: | 1Then Job answered: |
2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying? | 2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? |
3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me! | 3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me. |
4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me. | 4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone. |
5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, | 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me, |
6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net." | 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. |
7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. | 7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. |
8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways. | 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. |
9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head! | 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. |
10He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree. | 10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree. |
11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. | 11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies. |
12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent." | 12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent. |
13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; | 13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. |
14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. | 14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. |
15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner. | 15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. |
16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. | 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth. |
17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! | 17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family. |
18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. | 18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me. |
19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. | 19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me. |
20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." | 20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me. | 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. |
22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick? | 22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? |
23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book | 23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book, |
24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. | 24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever. |
25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. | 25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. |
26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, | 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. |
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." | 27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me! |
28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?' | 28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’ |
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." | 29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.” |
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