New Living Translation

King James Bible

1Then Job spoke again:

1Then Job answered and said,

2“How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?

2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

3You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.

3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.

4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.

5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.

6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

7“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.

7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into 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 has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.

10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

11His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.

11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

12His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.

12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

13“My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.

13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

14My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.

14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

15My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

16When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him!

16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

17My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family.

17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

18Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.

18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

19My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.

19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

20I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death 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.

21“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.

21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?

22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

23“Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,

23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

24carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.

24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

25“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.

25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

27I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!

27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?

28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

29You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed 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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