Job 16 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Job answered and said: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 I have heard this sort of thing many times. Troublesome comforters, all of you! “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 Is there no end to windy words? What sickness makes you rattle on? 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 also could talk as you do, were you in my place. I could declaim over you, or wag 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 I could strengthen you with talk, with mere chatter give relief. 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 If I speak, my pain is not relieved; if I stop speaking, nothing changes. “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 But now he has exhausted me; you have stunned all my companions. 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 have shriveled me up; it is a witness, my gauntness rises up to testify against me; 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 wrath tears and assails me, he gnashes his teeth against me; My enemy looks daggers 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 They gape at me with their mouths; They strike me on the cheek with insults; they are all enlisted 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 given me over to the impious; into the hands of the wicked he has cast me. 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 I was in peace, but he dislodged me, seized me by the neck, dashed me to pieces. He has set me up for a 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 arrows strike me from all directions. He pierces my sides without mercy, pours out my gall upon 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 He pierces me, thrust upon thrust, rushes at me like a 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 have sewn sackcloth on my skin, laid my horn low 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 inflamed with weeping, darkness covers my eyes, 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 Although my hands are free from violence, and my prayer sincere. 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 O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let my outcry come 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 my witness is 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 it is who wrong me; before God my eyes shed tears, 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 That justice may be done for a mortal with God: as for a man with his 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 my years are numbered, and I go the road of no 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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