Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
1Then Job answered: | 1Then Job answered and said, |
2Yes, I know what you've said is true, but how can a person be justified before God? | 2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? |
3If one wanted to take him to court, he could not answer God once in a thousand times. | 3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. |
4God is wise and all-powerful. Who has opposed him and come out unharmed? | 4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? |
5He removes mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his anger. | 5Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. |
6He shakes the earth from its place so that its pillars tremble. | 6Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. |
7He commands the sun not to shine and seals off the stars. | 7Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. |
8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. | 8Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. |
9He makes the stars: the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky. | 9Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. |
10He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. | 10Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. |
11If he passed by me, I wouldn't see him; if he went by, I wouldn't recognize him. | 11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. |
12If he snatches something, who can stop him? Who can ask him, "What are you doing?" | 12Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? |
13God does not hold back his anger; Rahab's assistants cringe in fear beneath him! | 13If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. |
14How then can I answer him or choose my arguments against him? | 14How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? |
15Even if I were in the right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy. | 15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. |
16If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said. | 16If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. |
17He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause. | 17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. |
18He doesn't let me catch my breath but fills me with bitter experiences. | 18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. |
19If it is a matter of strength, look, he is the powerful one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him? | 19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? |
20Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty. | 20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. |
21Though I am blameless, I no longer care about myself; I renounce my life. | 21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. |
22It is all the same. Therefore I say, "He destroys both the blameless and the wicked." | 22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. |
23When catastrophe brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent. | 23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. |
24The earth is handed over to the wicked; he blindfolds its judges. If it isn't he, then who is it? | 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? |
25My days fly by faster than a runner; they flee without seeing any good. | 25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. |
26They sweep by like boats made of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. | 26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. |
27If I said, "I will forget my complaint, change my expression, and smile," | 27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: |
28I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know you will not acquit me. | 28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. |
29Since I will be found guilty, why should I struggle in vain? | 29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? |
30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, | 30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; |
31then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me! | 31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. |
32For he is not a man like me, that I can answer him, that we can take each other to court. | 32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. |
33There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand on both of us. | 33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. |
34Let him take his rod away from me so his terror will no longer frighten me. | 34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: |
35Then I would speak and not fear him. But that is not the case; I am on my own. | 35Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. |
The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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