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Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters | ||||
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| 1 Then Job answered, | 1 Then Job answered and said, | 1 Then Job answered and said, | 1 Then Job answered, and said: | 1 And Job answereth and saith: -- | 2 "I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all. | 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. | 2 I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all. | 2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters. | 2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all. | 3 "Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer? | 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? | 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? | 3 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak? | 3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest? | 4 "I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you. | 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. | 4 I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. | 4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. | 4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head. | 5 "I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain. | 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. | 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief . | 5 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you. | 5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing. | Job Says God Shattered Him |
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| 6 "If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me? | 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? | 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased? | 6 But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me. | 6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me? | 7 "But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company. | 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. | 7 But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company. | 7 But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing. | 7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, | 8 "You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. | 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. | 8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face. | 8 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. | 8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. | 9 "His anger has torn me and hunted me down, He has gnashed at me with His teeth; My adversary glares at me. | 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. | 9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me. | 9 He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes. | 9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. | 10 "They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me. | 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. | 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me. | 10 They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. | 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 11 "God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked. | 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. | 11 God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. | 11 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked. | 11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. | 12 "I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target. | 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. | 12 I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark. | 12 I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark. | 12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. | 13 "His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground. | 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. | 13 His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground. | 13 He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth. | 13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. | 14 "He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior. | 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. | 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant. | 14 He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant. | 14 He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. | 15 "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin And thrust my horn in the dust. | 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. | 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. | 15 I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes. | 15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 16 "My face is flushed from weeping, And deep darkness is on my eyelids, | 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; | 16 My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; | 16 My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim. | 16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade. | 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. | 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. | 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. | 17 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God. | 17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. | 18 "O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no resting place for my cry. | 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. | 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting -place. | 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee. | 18 O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry. | 19 "Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high. | 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. | 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high. | 19 For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high. | 19 Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places. | 20 "My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God. | 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. | 20 My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God, | 20 My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. | 20 My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped: | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 21 "O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor! | 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! | 21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor! | 21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion! | 21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend. | 22 "For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. | 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. | 22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return. | 22 For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which l shall not return. | 22 When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go. |
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