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1Then Job spoke again:

1In response, Job said:

2“How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?

2"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

3You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.

3Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!

4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.

4Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.

5If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.

6then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."

7“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.

7"Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.

8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.

8He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

9"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!

10He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen 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.

11His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.

11His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.

12His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.

12His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."

13“My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.

13"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;

14My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.

14my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

15My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

15Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

16When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him!

16"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly.

17My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family.

17My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

18Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.

18Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.

19My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.

19My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

20I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.

20I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."

21“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.

21"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.

22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?

22Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

23“Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,

23If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book

24carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.

24using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.

25“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.

25"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.

26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

26Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,

27I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!

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."

28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?

28"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

29You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed 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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