| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1Then Job answered and said, | 1In response, Job said: |
| 2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. | 2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! |
| 3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? | 3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? |
| 4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. | 4"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you |
| 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. | 5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain. |
| 6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? | 6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?" |
| 7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. | 7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. |
| 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. | 8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. |
| 9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. | 9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me. |
| 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. | 10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me. |
| 11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. | 11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. |
| 12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. | 12"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target. |
| 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. | 13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. |
| 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. | 14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior. |
| 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. | 15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust. |
| 16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; | 16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids, |
| 17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. | 17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure." |
| 18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. | 18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. |
| 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. | 19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high. |
| 20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. | 20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, |
| 21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! | 21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor. |
| 22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. | 22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return." |
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