Job 19 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And Job will answer and say, Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 How long will ye, grieve my soul, and crush me 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 ye will reproach me: ye will not be ashamed, ye will injure 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 If indeed I erred my error will lodge 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 indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my 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 ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about 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 shall cry violence, and shall I not be answered: I shall cry for help, and no 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 He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten 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 And he put off from me my honor, and he removed the crown of 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 will lay me waste round about, and I shall go: and he will remove my hope as 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 will kindle his anger against me, and he will reckon me to him 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 troops shall come together and raise up their way against me, and they will encamp round about to 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 He removed my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance truly turned aside from 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 kindred ceased, and they acquainted with me forgot 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 sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes. 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 to my servant and he will not answer; I shall entreat him with my mouth. 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 spirit was loathsome to my wife, and I entreated to the sons of my belly. 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 Also children rejected me; I shall arise, and they will 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 the men of my intimacy will abhor me, and those I loved were 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 bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape 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 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon 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 will ye pursue me as God, and will ye not be satisfied from 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 Who will give now, and my words shall be written? who will give and they shall be delineated 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 They shall be cut in the rock with a style of iron and lead, 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 And I knew he redeeming me lived, and at last he shall rise up 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 And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall 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 Which I shall see for myself, and mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger: my reins were finished 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 For ye shall say, Why shall we pursue after him and the root of the word was found in 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 And fear ye to yourselves, from the face of the sword? for wrath the iniquities of the sword, so that ye shall know 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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