Job 19
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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!3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!
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 plead my disgrace against me,
6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.
7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.7"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but 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, and has set darkness over my paths.
9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off 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 perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers 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 throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.
13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;13"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.14My kinsmen have failed me; 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 my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. 16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even 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; I am loathsome to my brothers.
18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.
19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom 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 bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only 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 on me, 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 pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book23"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll,
24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. 25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.
26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,26And 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."27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint 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, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in 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."29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment."
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