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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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 9 Then Iyov answered and said,

2 How long will ye torment my nefesh, and crush me with words?

3 These ten times have ye reproached me; ye have no bushah that ye cause me astonishment.

4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine meshugah (error) remaineth with myself.

5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves above me, and use against me my cherpah (reproach, humiliation),

6 Have da’as now that Eloah hath put me in the wrong, and hath encompassed me with his matzud (net).

7 Behold, when I cry chamas, I am not heard; I cry for help, but there is no mishpat.

8 He hath fenced around my way that I cannot pass, and set choshech in my paths.

9 He hath stripped me of my kavod, and taken the ateret from my rosh.

10 He breaks me down on every side till I am gone, and mine tikveh hath He uprooted like an etz.

11 He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as His tzar (enemy).

12 His forces come together, and raise up their seige ramp against me, and encamp around my ohel.

13 He hath put achai (my brethren) far from me, and mine acquaintances are verily estranged from me.

14 My kerov (near and dear) have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

15 They that dwell in mine bais, and my maidservants, count me for a zar; I am a nokhri in their sight.

16 I summoned avdi, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.

17 My ruach is repulsive to my isha, loathsome to bnei beten of mine.

18 Even avilim (little children) treat me with contempt; I appear, and they ridicule me.

19 All my metei sod (confidants) detest me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.

20 My etzem cleaveth to my ohr (skin) and to my basar, and I am escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

21 Chanuni, chanuni, O ye my friends; for the yad Eloah hath touched me.

22 Why do ye persecute me like El, not satisfied with my basar?

23 Oh that my words were but written! O that they were recorded in a sefer!

24 That they were engraved with a pen of barzel and with oferet (lead) in the tzur forever!

25 For Ani yadati Goeli chai (I know that my Redeemer liveth), and that he shall stand up at Acharon (at the Last) upon aphar (dust, the earth);

26 And though after my ohr (skin) has been thus destroyed, yet from my basar I shall see Eloah;

27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold and no other; my heart faints within me.

28 But ye think, How we will persecute him, seeing the shoresh (root) of the matter is found in me?

29 Be ye afraid of the cherev; for wrath bringeth the avonot (punishments) of the cherev, that ye may know there is a judgment.