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| [1]But Job answered, and said, |
[1]And Job answereth and saith: -- |
| [2]How long will ye vex my soul, and torment me with words? |
[2]Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? |
| [3]Ye have now ten times reproached me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward me. |
[3]These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me -- |
| [4]And though I had indeed erred, mine error remaineth with me. |
[4]And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain. |
| [5]But indeed if ye will advance yourselves against me, and rebuke me for my reproach, |
[5]If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach; |
| [6]Know now, that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. |
[6]Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round, |
| [7]Behold, I cry out of violence, but I have none answer: I cry, but there is no judgment. |
[7]Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment. |
| [8]He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. |
[8]My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth. |
| [9]He hath spoiled me of mine honor, and taken the crown away from mine head. |
[9]Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. |
| [10]He hath destroyed me on every side and I am gone: and he hath removed mine hope like a tree. |
[10]He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. |
| [11]And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth me as one of his enemies. |
[11]And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries. |
| [12]His armies came together, and made their way upon me, and camped about my tabernacle. |
[12]Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent. |
| [13]He hath removed my brethren far from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers unto me. |
[13]My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. |
| [14]My neighbors have forsaken me, and my familiars have forgotten me. |
[14]Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, |
| [15]They that dwell in mine house, and my maids took me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight. |
[15]Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes. |
| [16]I called my servant, but he would not answer, though I prayed him with my mouth. |
[16]To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him. |
| [17]My breath was strange unto my wife, though I prayed her for the children's sake of mine own body. |
[17]My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb. |
| [18]The wicked also despised me, and when I rose, they spake against me. |
[18]Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me. |
| [19]All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved, are turned against me. |
[19]Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me. |
| [20]My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
[20]To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth. |
| [21]Have pity upon me: have pity upon me, (O ye my friends) for the hand of God hath touched me. |
[21]Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me. |
| [22]Why do ye persecute me, as God? And are not satisfied with my flesh? |
[22]Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied? |
| [23]Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were written even in a book, |
[23]Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven? |
| [24]And graven with an iron pen in lead, or in stone forever! |
[24]With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn. |
| [25]For I am sure, that my redeemer liveth, and he shall stand the last on the earth. |
[25]That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. |
| [26]And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my flesh. |
[26]And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God: |
| [27]Whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes shall behold, and none other for me, though my reins are consumed within me. |
[27]Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom. |
| [28]But ye said, Why is he persecuted? And there was a deep matter in me. |
[28]But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me. |
| [29]Be ye afraid of the sword: for the sword will be avenged of wickedness, that ye may know that there is a judgment. |
[29]Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a judgment. |