| NET Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Then Job answered: | 1Then Job responded, |
| 2"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? | 2"How long will you torment me And crush me with words? |
| 3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me! | 3"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me. |
| 4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern! | 4"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me. |
| 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me, | 5"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me, |
| 6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net. | 6Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me. |
| 7"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice. | 7"Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths. | 8"He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. |
| 9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head. | 9"He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head. |
| 10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree. | 10"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree. |
| 11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies. | 11"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy. |
| 12His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent. | 12"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent. |
| 13"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. | 13"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. |
| 14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. | 14"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me. |
| 15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. | 15"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. |
| 16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. | 16"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth. |
| 17My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. | 17"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers. |
| 18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. | 18"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me. |
| 19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me. | 19"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. |
| 20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth. | 20"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me. | 21"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh? | 22"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 23"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, | 23"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
| 24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever! | 24"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! |
| 25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth. | 25"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. |
| 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, | 26"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; |
| 27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me. | 27Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! |
| 28If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!' | 28"If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?' |
| 29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment." | 29"Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment." |
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