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1Then Job answered and said:

1In response, Job said:

2“How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

3These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!

4And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.

4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

5If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,

5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

6Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.

6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."

7“If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, there is no justice.

7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.

8He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.

8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

9He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!

10He breaks me down on every side, And I am gone; My hope He has uprooted like a tree.

10He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

11He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as one of His enemies.

11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.

12His troops come together And build up their road against me; They encamp all around my tent.

12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."

13“He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;

14My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.

14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

15Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

16I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth.

16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly.

17My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am repulsive to the children of my own body.

17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

18Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.

18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.

19All my close friends abhor me, And those whom I love have turned against me.

19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."

21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!

21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.

22Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

23“Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book

24That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!

24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.

25For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;

25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.

26And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,

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

27Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

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."

28If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’— Since the root of the matter is found in me,

28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

29Be afraid of the sword for yourselves; For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment.”

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."

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