| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1Then Job answered and said, | 1In response, Job said: |
| 2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | 2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying? |
| 3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. | 3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me! |
| 4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. | 4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me. |
| 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: | 5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me, |
| 6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. | 6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net." |
| 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. | 7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice. |
| 8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. | 8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways. |
| 9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | 9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head! |
| 10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. | 10He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree. |
| 11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. | 11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. |
| 12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. | 12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent." |
| 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. | 13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; |
| 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. | 14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. |
| 15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. | 15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner. |
| 16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. | 16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. |
| 17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. | 17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! |
| 18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. | 18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. |
| 19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. | 19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. |
| 20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. | 20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." |
| 21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. | 21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me. |
| 22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | 22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick? |
| 23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! | 23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book |
| 24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! | 24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. |
| 25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: | 25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. |
| 26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: | 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, |
| 27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. | 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." |
| 28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? | 28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?' |
| 29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. | 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." |
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