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1 In response, Job said: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 |How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying? “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 Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong 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 Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects 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 If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, 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 then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net.| 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 |Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. 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 blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways. 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 stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off 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 is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree. 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 anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. 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 march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent.| 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 |My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; “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 relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
15 Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner. 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 call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. 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 says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! 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 little children hate me; when I get up, they mock 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 My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have 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 I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of 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 |Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck 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 are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick? 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 If only my words were written down; if only they were 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 using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. 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 |As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. 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 Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see 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 will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won't be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire.| 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 |When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with 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 Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's 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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