New Living Translation

New American Standard Bible 1995

1Then Job spoke again:

1Then Job responded,

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

2"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?

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

3"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.

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

4"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.

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

5"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

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

6Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.

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

7"Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.

8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.

8"He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.

9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

9"He has stripped my honor from me And removed 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.

10"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

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

11"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.

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

12"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.

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

13"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

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

14"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

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

15"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.

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

16"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.

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

17"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

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

18"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.

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

19"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.

20I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.

20"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

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

21"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.

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

22"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

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

23"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

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

24"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

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

25"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

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

26"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall 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 myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!

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

28"If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?'

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

29"Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."

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