Job 19
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1Then Job spoke again:1Then Job answered:
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 your words?
3You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!
5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.
7“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.7"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.
10He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
11His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
12His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.12His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.
13“My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.13"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
14My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
15My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
16When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him!16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.
17My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family.17My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.
18Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.
19My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
20I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death 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“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?22Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
23“Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,23"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll,
24carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
25“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.
26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will 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 will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?28If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!'
29You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed 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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