Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
Job answered
:
And
Job answereth
and
saith
: --
“How
long
will
you
torment
me
and crush
me with your
words?
Till
when
do
ye
afflict
my
soul,
And bruise
me with words?
Ten times now
you
have
reproached
me;
you
shamelessly
mistreat
me.
These
ten times ye
put
me to
shame,
ye
blush
not
. Ye
make
yourselves
strange
to
me
--
Even
if
I have truly
gone
astray
, my error concerns
me
alone
.
And
also
--
truly,
I have erred
, With
me
doth
my error remain
.
If indeed
you
would
exalt
yourselves
above
me and use
my
disgrace
against me ,
If ,
truly,
over
me ye
magnify
yourselves,
And decide
against me my
reproach;
then
understand
that it
is
God who
has
wronged
me and drawn
His net around
me .
Know
now,
that God turned
me upside
down,
And His net against
me hath
set
round,
Though
I cry out ,
‘
Violence !’
I
get
no
response;
though
I call
for
help
, there is no justice
.
Lo,
I cry out --
violence ,
and
am
not
answered,
I cry
aloud
, and
there is no judgment
.
He
has
blocked
my way so
I cannot
pass ;
He
has
veiled
my paths with
darkness.
My way He
hedged
up,
and
I pass not
over,
And
on
my paths darkness He
placeth
.
He has
stripped me
of
my
honor
and removed
the crown from my head.
Mine
honour
from
off
me
He hath
stripped ,
And He
turneth
the crown from my head.
He tears
me down on
every
side
until
I am
gone;
He
uproots
my
hope
like a tree.
He breaketh
me down round
about,
and
I go,
And
removeth
like a tree my
hope
.
His
anger
burns
against me, and He
counts
me among
His enemies
.
And
He
kindleth
against me His
anger
, And reckoneth
me to
Him
as
His adversaries
.
His troops advance
together ;
they construct
a
ramp
against me and encamp around
my tent.
Come
in
do
His troops together ,
And
they raise
up
against me their
way,
And encamp round
about
my tent.
He
has
removed
my brothers
from me ;
my
acquaintances have abandoned
me.
My brethren
from me He
hath
put
far
off,
And
mine
acquaintances surely
Have been
estranged
from
me.
My
kinsmen
have failed
me,
and my friends have forgotten me .
Ceased
have my
neighbours
And my familiar
friends have forgotten me ,
My guests
and maidservants
count
me
as
a stranger ;
I am
a
foreigner
in their sight
.
Sojourners
of
my house
and my
maids,
For
a stranger reckon
me:
An
alien
I have
been
in their eyes
.
I
call
for
my servant, but
he does
not answer, though
I
implore
him
with my own
mouth.
To
my servant I
have
called
, And
he doth
not answer, With my mouth I
make
supplication
to
him
.
My breath
is repulsive
to my wife, and I
am
loathsome
to my own
family
.
My spirit
is strange
to my wife, And my
favours
to the
sons
of
my `mother's'
womb
.
Even
little
boys
scorn
me ;
when
I appear
, they deride
me.
Also
sucklings
have
despised
me ,
I rise
, and
they speak
against
me.
All my best
friends
despise
me
, and those I love
have turned against me.
Abominate
me
do
all the
men
of
my counsel
, And those I have loved,
Have
been
turned against me.
My skin and flesh
cling
to my bones;
I have
escaped
by
the skin of my teeth.
To
my skin and to my flesh
Cleaved
hath
my
bone,
And
I deliver
myself
with
the skin of my teeth.
Have
pity on
me, my friends, have
pity,
for the hand of God has
struck
me.
Pity me, pity
me,
ye
my friends, For the hand of God hath
stricken
against
me.
Why do you persecute
me as God does
? Will
you
never
get
enough
of
my flesh?
Why do you pursue
me as God? And
with
my flesh are
not
satisfied
?
I
wish
that my words were
recorded
and
inscribed
in a book ,
Who
doth
grant
now,
That my words may
be
written?
Who
doth
grant
that
in a book they
may
be
graven?
by
an
iron stylus
on
lead ,
or
chiseled
in stone
forever
.
With
a
pen
of
iron and
lead --
For
ever
in a
rock
they
may
be
hewn
.
But
I
know
that my Redeemer lives
, and in
the end
He
will
stand
upon
the earth
.
That --
I
have
known
my Redeemer, The
Living
and the Last,
For
the dust
he
doth
rise
.
Even
after my skin has
been
destroyed
, yet
in
my flesh I will
see God .
And
after my skin hath
compassed
this
`body'
, Then
from
my flesh 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 --
I
see on
my side,
And
mine
eyes have
beheld
, and not a stranger ,
Consumed
have
been
my reins
in
my
bosom.
If
you
say, ‘Let
us
persecute
him ,
since
the root of the matter lies
with
him,’
But
ye
say, `Why
do
we
pursue
after
him ?'
And
the root of the matter hath
been
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
because
of
the sword, For
furious
`are'
the punishments
of
the
sword, That ye
may know that
`
there is '
a judgment.
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