Young's Literal Translation YLT
Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
1 And Job answereth and saith: --
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Then Job answered:
2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.
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I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.
3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
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Is there [no] end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?
4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
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If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you, [but I wouldn't].
5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
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I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
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Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost?
7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
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Surely He has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.
8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
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You have shriveled me up-it has become a witness; My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.
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His anger tears [at me], and He harasses me. He gnashes His teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.
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They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.
11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
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God hands me over to unjust men; He throws me into the hands of the wicked.
12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
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I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized [me] by the scruff of the neck and smashed me to pieces. He set me up as His target;
13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
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His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and pours my bile on the ground.
14 He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
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He breaks through my defenses again and again; He charges at me like a warrior.
15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
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I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade.
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My face has grown red with weeping, and the shadow of death covers my eyes,
17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.
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although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
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Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place.
19 Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places.
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Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights!
20 My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
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My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.
21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
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I wish that someone might arbitrate between a man and God just as a man [pleads] for his friend.
22 When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
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For [only] a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.
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