Job 16 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 But Job answered and said, Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all. “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 What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering? 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 will speak as ye do : if indeed your soul were in my soul's stead, then would I insult you with words, and 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 would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips. 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 For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less? “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 made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me. 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 My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted 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 In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon 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 He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp spear he has smitten me down upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord. 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 For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. 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 When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark. 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 They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured 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 They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might. 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 They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. 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 belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on 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 Yet there was no injustice in my hands, 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 Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place. “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 And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and 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 Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him. 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 Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of 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 But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not 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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