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Job 19

GOD'S WORD Translation GW

1 Then Job replied [to his friends],

2 "How long will you torment me and depress me with words?

3 You have insulted me ten times now. You're not even ashamed of mistreating me.

4 Even if it were true that I've made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.

5 If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as an argument against me,

6 then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.

7 Indeed, I cry, 'Help! I'm being attacked!' but I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.

8 "God has blocked my path so that I can't go on. He has made my paths dark.

9 He has stripped me of my honor. He has taken the crown off my head.

10 He beats me down on every side until I'm gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.

11 He is very angry at me. He considers me to be his enemy.

12 His troops assemble against me. They build a ramp to attack me and camp around my tent.

13 "My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me.

14 My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My house guests have forgotten me.

15 My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

16 I call my slave, but he doesn't answer, though I beg him.

17 My breath offends my wife. I stink to my own children.

18 Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me.

19 All my closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.

20 I am skin and bones, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

21 "Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.

22 Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?

23 "I wish now my words were written. I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.

24 I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.

25 But I know that my defender lives, and afterwards, he will rise on the earth.

26 Even after my skin has been stripped off my body, I will see God in my own flesh.

27 I will see him with my own eyes, not with someone else's. My heart fails inside me!

28 "You say, 'We will persecute him! The root of the problem is found in him.'

29 Fear death, because [your anger] is punishable by death. Then you will know there is a judge."

New International Version NIV

1 Then Job replied:

2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

3 Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.

4 If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

6 then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

7 “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

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

10 He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

11 His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.

12 His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

13 “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

14 My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

15 My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.

17 My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

18 Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.

19 All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.

20 I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

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

22 Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

23 “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!

25 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;

27 I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, ’

29 you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. ”