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1Then Job answered and said: | 1In response, Job said: |
2“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all! | 2"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! |
3Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? | 3Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? |
4I also could speak as you do, If your soul were in my soul’s place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you; | 4"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you |
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief. | 5and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain. |
6“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased? | 6"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?" |
7But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company. | 7"God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. |
8You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face. | 8You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. |
9He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me. | 9His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me. |
10They gape at me with their mouth, They strike me reproachfully on the cheek, They gather together against me. | 10People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me. |
11God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked. | 11God has delivered me over to the ungodly, throwing me into the control of the wicked. |
12I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces; He has set me up for His target, | 12"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces— then he really made me his target. |
13His archers surround me. He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground. | 13His archers surround me, slashing open my kidneys without pity; he pours out my gall on the ground. |
14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior. | 14Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior. |
15“I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust. | 15"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust. |
16My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; | 16My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids, |
17Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure. | 17even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure." |
18“O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place! | 18"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest. |
19Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high. | 19Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high. |
20My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God. | 20My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, |
21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor! | 21crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor. |
22For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return. | 22For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return." |
The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. |
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