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Job 19

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 And Job made answer and said,

2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

4 And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

16 At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

20 My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

24 And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

25 But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;

27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

28 If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

29 Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

Good News Translation GNT

1 Why do you keep tormenting me

2 with words?

3 Time after time you insult me and show no shame for the way you abuse me.

4 Even if I have done wrong, how does that hurt you?

5 You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.

6 Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me.

7 I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice.

8 God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness.

9 He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation.

10 He batters me from every side. He uproots my hope and leaves me to wither and die.

11 God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy.

12 He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent.

13 God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;

14 my relatives and friends are gone.

15 Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.

16 When I call a servant, he doesn't answer - even when I beg him to help me.

17 My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.

18 Children despise me and laugh when they see me.

19 My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.

20 My skin hangs loose on my bones; I have barely escaped with my life.

21 You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.

22 Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?

23 How I wish that someone would remember my words and record them in a book!

24 Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.

25 But I know there is someone in heaven who will come at last to my defense.

26 Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.

27 I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger. My courage failed because you said,

28 "How can we torment him?" You looked for some excuse to attack me.

29 But now, be afraid of the sword - the sword that brings God's wrath on sin, so that you will know there is one who judges.