Job 16 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 In response, Job said: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 |I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!
3 Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
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 I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
5 and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain. I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6 |But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?| “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
7 |God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
8 You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
9 His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me. He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
10 People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me. Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me. People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
11 God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
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. I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
13 His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.
14 Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior. He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
15 |I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
16 My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids, My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;
17 even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure.| although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 |Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. “O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. “Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
19 Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high. Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high. Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
20 My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21 crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor. that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor. on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.
22 For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return.| For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return. “Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.
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