| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1In response, Job said: | 1Then Job responded, |
| 2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying? | 2"How long will you torment me And crush me with words? |
| 3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me! | 3"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me. |
| 4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me. | 4"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me. |
| 5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, | 5"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me, |
| 6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net." | 6Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me. |
| 7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. | 7"Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways. | 8"He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. |
| 9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head! | 9"He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head. |
| 10He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree. | 10"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree. |
| 11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. | 11"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy. |
| 12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent." | 12"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent. |
| 13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; | 13"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. |
| 14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. | 14"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me. |
| 15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner. | 15"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. |
| 16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. | 16"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth. |
| 17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! | 17"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers. |
| 18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. | 18"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me. |
| 19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. | 19"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. |
| 20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." | 20"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me. | 21"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick? | 22"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book | 23"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
| 24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. | 24"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! |
| 25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. | 25"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. |
| 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, | 26"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; |
| 27whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won't be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire." | 27Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! |
| 28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?' | 28"If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?' |
| 29Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment." | 29"Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment." |
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