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1 Then Job answered and said: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 How long will you afflict my spirit, grind 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 These ten times you have humiliated me, have assailed me without shame! 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 were true that I am at fault, my fault would remain 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 If truly you exalt yourselves at my expense, and use my shame as an argument 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 Know then that it is God who has dealt unfairly with me, and compassed me round 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 If I cry out “Violence!” I am not answered. I shout for help, but there is 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 has barred my way and I cannot pass; veiled my path in 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 has stripped me of my glory, taken the diadem from my brow. 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 breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; he has uprooted my hope 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 He has kindled his wrath against me; he counts me one of his enemies. 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 advance as one; they build up their road to attack me, encamp around 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 family has withdrawn from me, my friends are wholly 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 and companions neglect me, my guests 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 Even my maidservants consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner 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 call my servant, but he gives no answer, though I plead aloud with 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 My breath is abhorrent to my wife; I am loathsome to my very children. 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 young children despise me; when I appear, 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 intimate friends hold me in horror; those whom I loved 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 bones cling to my skin, and I have 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 Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for the hand of God 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 do you pursue me like God, and prey insatiably upon me? 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, would that my words were written down! Would that they were inscribed in a record: “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 with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the 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 lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust. 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 This will happen when my skin has been stripped off, and from 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 I will see for myself, my own eyes, not another’s, will behold him: my inmost being is consumed with longing. 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 But you who say, “How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in 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 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves, for your anger is a crime deserving the sword; that you may know that there is 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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