Job 19 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Job answered , and said: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces 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 Behold, these 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 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall 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 set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches. 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 understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed 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 cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to 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 hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness. 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 hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken 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 hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. 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 wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as 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 come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. 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 hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. “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 they that 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 They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien 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 gave me no answer, I entreated 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 hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb. 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 fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against 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 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is 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 The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about 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 pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath 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 persecute me as God, and glut 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 me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down 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 in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint 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 liveth, and in the last day I shall 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 shall be clothed 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 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up 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 say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word 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 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is 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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