Job 19 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Job spoke again: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 “How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your 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 You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly. 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 I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours. 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 You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin. 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 But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in 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 “I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, 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 God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into 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 honor and removed 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 demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen 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 fury burns against me; he counts me as an 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 advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all 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 relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against 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 family is gone, and my close friends 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 My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them. 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 When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead 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 repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family. 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 stand to speak, they turn their backs on 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 close friends detest me. Those 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 I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death 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 “Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, 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 Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough? 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 could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument, “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 carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock. 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 “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. 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 after my body has decayed, yet in my body 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 him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought! 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 “How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’? 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 You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed 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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