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 ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus. “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 Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon 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 Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right to speak ; and my words err, and are unreasonable. 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 alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach. 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 the Lord that has troubled me , and has raised his bulwark against 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 Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment. 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 I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face. 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 And he has stripped me of my glory, and has 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 torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off 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 And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for 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 also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways. 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 brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers rather than me: and my friends have become pitiless. “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 nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, 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 As for my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before 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 I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated 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 And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines. 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 But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, 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 They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up 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 flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in 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, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has 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 Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does , and are not satisfied 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 For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever, “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 lead, or graven in the rocks! 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 he is eternal who is about to deliver me, 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 to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings : for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; 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 which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me 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 But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and so find the root of the matter 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 Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is. 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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