Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
Then Job answered :
Then Job answered ,
“
How long will you torment me and crush me with your
words?
"
How long will you torment me ,
And crush me with words?
Ten
times
now
you have reproached me ;
you shamelessly
mistreat
me.
You have reproached me ten
times.
You aren't
ashamed
that
you
attack
me.
Even
if I have truly
gone
astray
, my error concerns
me
alone
.
If it
is
true
that
I have erred
, My error remains
with
myself
.
If indeed you would
exalt
yourselves above
me and use
my
disgrace
against me ,
If indeed you 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 has subverted
me ,
And has
surrounded
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 has walled
up
my way so that
I can't
pass ,
And
has set
darkness
in
my paths.
He has stripped me of my honor
and removed
the crown from my head.
He has 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 has
broken
me down on every side ,
and
I am gone .
My hope he
has
plucked
up
like a tree.
His anger
burns
against me ,
and
He counts me among His enemies
.
He
has
also
kindled
his wrath
against me .
He counts me among his adversaries
.
His troops advance
together ;
they
construct
a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
His troops come
on
together ,
Build
a siege
ramp against me ,
And encamp around my tent.
He has removed
my brothers from me ;
my acquaintances have
abandoned
me.
"
He has put
my brothers far
from me .
My acquaintances are
wholly
estranged
from
me.
My kinsmen
have failed
me,
and
my friends have forgotten me.
My relatives
have gone
away.
My familiar
friends have forgotten me.
My guests
and maidservants
count me as
a stranger ;
I am a
foreigner
in their sight.
Those
who
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 to
my servant, and
he gives
me
no
answer ;
I beg
him with my mouth.
My breath is repulsive
to my wife ,
and
I am loathsome to my own family
.
My breath is offensive
to my wife .
I am loathsome to the
children
of
my 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 .
They
whom
I loved
have turned against me.
My skin and flesh
cling
to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
My bones
stick
to
my
skin and to my flesh.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Have pity on me, my
friends,
have pity, for the hand of God has struck
me.
"
Have pity on me, have pity on
me
, you
my
friends;
For the hand of God has touched
me.
Why do you persecute me as God does?
Will
you
never
get
enough
of
my flesh?
Why do you 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
engraved
in the
rock
forever !
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 lives .
In the end ,
he will stand upon the earth.
Even
after my skin has
been
destroyed, yet
in my flesh I will
see God .
After my skin is
destroyed, Then
in 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.
My
eyes shall
see
, 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 you say, 'How
we
will
persecute him !'
Because
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
afraid
of
the sword, For
wrath brings the punishments
of
the
sword, That you may know there is a judgment. "
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