King James Bible | English Standard Version |
1Then Job answered and said, | 1Then Job answered and said: |
2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | 2“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? |
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. | 3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? |
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. | 4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. |
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: | 5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, |
6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. | 6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. |
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. | 7Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; 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 walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. |
9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | 9He has stripped from me my glory and taken 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 breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. |
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. | 11He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. |
12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. | 12His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. |
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. | 13“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. |
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. | 14My relatives have failed me, 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. | 15The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. |
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. | 16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. |
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. | 17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. |
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. | 18Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. |
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. | 19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved 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 bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by 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, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! |
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | 22Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? |
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! | 23“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! | 24Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! |
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: | 25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. |
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: | 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, |
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. | 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! |
28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? | 28If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’ |
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. | 29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” |
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