Job 19 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 But Job answered by saying: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words? “How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? “How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
3 So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me. These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.
4 Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me. And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
5 But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace. If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
6 At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges. know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
7 Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge. Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8 He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path. He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
9 He has plundered me of my glory, and he has stolen the crown from my head. He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope. He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
11 His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy. He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
12 His troops have gathered together, and they have made their way to me, and they have besieged my tabernacle all around. His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers. “He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me. My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
15 The inhabitants of my house and my maidservants treat me just as if I were a stranger, and I have been like an sojourner in their eyes. The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.
16 I called my servant, and he did not respond; I pleaded with him with my own mouth. I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
17 My wife has shuddered at my breath, and I have begged the sons of my loins. My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me. Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
19 Those who were sometime my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me. All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
20 Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me. Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! “Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22 Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh? Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book, “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
24 with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone? Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth. For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
26 And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
27 It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom. whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
28 Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?” If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’ “If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,’
29 So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment. be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.”
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