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 will you grieve my soul, and make me sick 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 For behold, these ten times you have rebuked me; and yet you are not ashamed that you make me sad. 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 If indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself. 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 have justly magnified yourselves against me, rebuked me, and reproached 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 Know then that God has condemned me, and spread his net over me. 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 If I howl, no one answers me; and if I complain, there is no one to avenge me. 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 fenced up my ways so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths. 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 glory, and 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 has destroyed me on every side, and I am no more; and my hope has he removed like a piece of 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 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts 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 messengers have come together against me; they debated their ways against me, and encamped round about 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 far off from me, and my acquaintances have deserted 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 kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forsaken 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 dwell in my house, and my maids, consider me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 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 mouth and implored him. 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 I have become a stranger to my wife, and have implored the children of my own body. 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 Yea, even the wicked despise me; when I rise, they speak 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 All my counselors abhor me; even my friends 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 My skin and my flesh cleave to my bones, and I am escaped with 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 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has been against 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 also persecute me like God, and you are not satisfied with the hurt of 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 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a scroll! “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 That they were engraved with an iron pen on lead or in the rock for ever! 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 Saviour lives, and at the end he will reveal himself upon 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 Although devouring worms have covered my skin and my flesh, 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 Yet, if my eyes shall see God, then my heart also will see the light; but now my body is consumed. 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 For you will say, Why did we persecute him? For a good report will follow me and vindicate me. 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 Spare yourselves from the sword; for the wrath of sinners is a sword; for you shall yet know 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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