Then Job answered :
Then Job answered and
said,
Translation comparison
Job 19
29 aligned verses; 29 with wording or punctuation differences .
Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
“
How long will you
torment
me
and crush
me with your
words?
How long will ye
vex
my
soul,
And break
me in
pieces
with words?
Ten times now
you
have reproached me ;
you
shamelessly
mistreat
me.
These
ten times have ye
reproached me :
Ye
are
not
ashamed
that
ye
deal
hardly
with
me.
Even
if
I have truly
gone
astray
, my
error concerns
me
alone
.
And
be
it
indeed
that
I have erred
, Mine
error remaineth
with
myself
.
If indeed you
would
exalt
yourselves above
me and use
my
disgrace
against me ,
If indeed ye
will
magnify
yourselves against
me ,
And plead
against me my
reproach;
then
understand
that it
is
God who
has
wronged
me and drawn
His net around
me
.
Know
now
that God hath
subverted
me `in
my
cause',
And hath
compassed
me
with
his net.
Though
I cry out, ‘Violence!’
I get
no
response;
though
I call
for help, there is no justice.
Behold,
I cry out of
wrong
, but
I am
not
heard:
I cry
for help, but
there is no justice.
He has
blocked
my way so
I cannot pass ;
He
has
veiled
my paths with
darkness
.
He hath
walled
up
my way that
I cannot pass ,
And
hath
set
darkness
in
my paths.
He has
stripped me of my honor
and removed
the crown from my head.
He hath
stripped me of my glory,
And taken
the crown from my head.
He tears
me down on every side until
I am gone; He
uproots
my hope like a tree.
He hath
broken
me down on every side ,
and
I am gone; And
my hope hath
he
plucked
up
like a tree.
His anger
burns
against me, and He counts
me among
His enemies
.
He
hath
also
kindled
his wrath
against me, And he counteth
me unto
him
as
`one
of'
his adversaries
.
His troops advance
together ;
they
construct
a
ramp
against me and encamp around
my tent.
His troops come
on
together ,
And
cast
up
their
way
against me ,
And encamp round
about
my tent.
He has
removed
my brothers
from me ;
my
acquaintances
have
abandoned
me.
He hath
put
my brethren
far
from me ,
And
mine
acquaintance
are
wholly
estranged
from
me.
My kinsmen
have failed me
, and my friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk
have failed, And my familiar
friends have forgotten me.
My guests
and maidservants
count me as
a stranger; I am a
foreigner
in their sight.
They
that
dwell
in
my house,
and my
maids,
count me for
a stranger; I am an
alien
in their sight.
I call for
my servant, but
he does
not
answer, though I implore
him with my own
mouth.
I call unto
my servant, and
he giveth
me
no
answer, `
Though '
I entreat
him with my mouth.
My breath is repulsive
to my wife, and I
am
loathsome
to
my own family
.
My breath is strange
to my wife, And my supplication
to
the
children
of
mine
own mother
.
Even little
boys
scorn
me; when
I appear
, they deride
me.
Even young
children
despise
me; If
I arise
, they speak
against
me.
All my best
friends despise
me, and those
I love
have
turned against me.
All my familiar
friends abhor
me, And they
whom
I loved
are
turned against me.
My skin and flesh
cling
to my bones;
I have
escaped by
the skin of my teeth.
My bone
cleaveth
to
my
skin and to my flesh,
And
I am
escaped with
the skin of my teeth.
Have pity on
me, my
friends,
have pity, for the hand of God has
struck
me.
Have pity upon
me, have pity upon
me
, O
ye
my
friends;
For the hand of God hath
touched
me.
Why do you
persecute me as God does?
Will
you
never
get
enough
of
my flesh?
Why do ye
persecute me as God ,
And
are
not
satisfied
with
my flesh?
I
wish
that my words were recorded
and
inscribed in a book ,
Oh
that my words were now
written!
Oh
that
they
were
inscribed in a book !
by
an iron stylus
on
lead ,
or
chiseled
in stone
forever.
That
with
an iron pen
and
lead They
were
graven
in the
rock
for
ever!
But I know that my Redeemer lives
, and in
the
end
He will stand upon the earth .
But as
for
me
I know that my Redeemer liveth
, And at
last
he will stand up
upon the earth :
Even
after my skin has
been
destroyed, yet
in
my flesh I will
see God .
And
after my skin ,
`even'
this
`body',
is
destroyed, Then
without
my flesh shall
I see God ;
I will
see Him
for
myself;
my eyes will
behold Him
, and not as a stranger. How
my heart yearns
within me !
Whom
I ,
even
I,
shall
see ,
on
my side,
And
mine
eyes shall
behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is
consumed
within me .
If you
say, ‘Let
us
persecute him ,
since
the root of the matter lies
with
him,’
If ye
say, How
we
will
persecute him !
And
that
the root of the matter is
found
in
me;
then
you
should
fear
the sword yourselves,
because
wrath brings
punishment
by
the sword, so
that you
may know there is a judgment. ”
Be
ye
afraid
of
the sword :
For
wrath `bringeth'
the punishments
of
the
sword, That ye
may know there is a judgment.
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