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1In response, Job said:

1Then Job answered:

2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

2How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!

3You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame.

4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

4Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me.

5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

5If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."

6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in his net.

7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.

7I cry out: "Violence!" but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice.

8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

8He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; he has veiled my paths with darkness.

9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!

9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

10He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

10He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree.

11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.

11His anger burns against me, and he regards me as one of his enemies.

12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."

12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and camp around my tent.

13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;

13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

14My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.

15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

15My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly.

16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth.

17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

17My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family finds me repulsive.

18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.

18Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me.

19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

19All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."

20My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.

21Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God's hand has struck me.

22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book

23I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll

24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.

24or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!

25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.

25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the end he will stand on the dust.

26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,

26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.

27whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won't be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

27I will see him myself; my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me.

28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

28If you say, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?"

29Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."

29then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.

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