| International Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1In response, Job said: | 1Then Job replied: |
| 2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying? | 2"How 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! | 3Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me. |
| 4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me. | 4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone. |
| 5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, | 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, |
| 6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net." | 6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me. |
| 7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. | 7"Though I cry, 'Violence!' I get no response; though I call for help, 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 I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in 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 till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree. |
| 11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. | 11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies. |
| 12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent." | 12His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. |
| 13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; | 13"He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. |
| 14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. | 14My relatives have gone away; my closest 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 guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger. |
| 16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. | 16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though 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; I am loathsome to my own family. |
| 18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. | 18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me. |
| 19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. | 19All my intimate friends detest me; 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." | 20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me. | 21"Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick? | 22Why do you pursue 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 | 23"Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, |
| 24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. | 24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever! |
| 25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. | 25I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. |
| 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, | 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; |
| 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 myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! |
| 28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?' | 28"If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in 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." | 29you 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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