King James Bible

Christian Standard Bible

1Then Job answered and said,

1Then Job answered:

2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

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

3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

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

4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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

5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

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

6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

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

7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

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

8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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

9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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

10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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

11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

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

12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

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

13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

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

14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

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

15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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

16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

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

17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

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

18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

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

19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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

20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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

21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

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

22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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

23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

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

24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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

25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

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

26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

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

27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

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

28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

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

29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is 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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