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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
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| 19:1 | Then Job answered and said, | And Job answereth and saith: -- |
| 19:2 | How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? |
| 19:3 | These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye |
These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me -- |
| 19:4 | And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. | And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain. |
| 19:5 | If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: | If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach; |
| 19:6 | Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. | Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round, |
| 19:7 | Behold, I cry out of |
Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment. |
| 19:8 | He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. | My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth. |
| 19:9 | He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. |
| 19:10 | He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. | He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. |
| 19:11 | He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. | And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries. |
| 19:12 | His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. | Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent. |
| 19:13 | He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. | My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. |
| 19:14 | My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. | Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, |
| 19:15 | They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. | Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes. |
| 19:16 | I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. | To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him. |
| 19:17 | My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of |
My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my `mother's' womb. |
| 19:18 | Yea, |
Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me. |
| 19:19 | All |
Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me. |
| 19:20 | My bone cleaveth to my skin |
To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth. |
| 19:21 | Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. | Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me. |
| 19:22 | Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied? |
| 19:23 | Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven? | |
| 19:24 | That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! | With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn. |
| 19:25 | For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: | That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. |
| 19:26 | And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: | And after my skin hath compassed this `body', Then from my flesh I see God: |
| 19:27 | Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not |
Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom. |
| 19:28 | But ye should say, Why persecute we him, |
But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me. |
| 19:29 | Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye 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. |