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1 Then Job answered and said,
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Then Iyov answered:
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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"How long will you go on making me angry, crushing me with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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You've insulted me ten times already; aren't you ashamed to treat me so badly?
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
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Even if it's true that I made a mistake, my error stays with me.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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"You may take a superior attitude toward me and cite my disgrace as proof against me;
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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but know that it's God who has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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If I cry, 'Violence!' no one hears me; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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"He has fenced off my way, so that I can't pass; he has covered my paths with darkness.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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He has stripped me of my glory and removed the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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He tears every part of me down - I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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"Inflamed with anger against me, he counts me as one of his foes.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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His troops advance together, they make their way against me and encamp around my tent.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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"He has made my brothers keep their distance, those who know me are wholly estranged from me,
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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my kinsfolk have failed me, and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
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Those living in my house consider me a stranger; my slave-girls too - in their view I'm a foreigner.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
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I call my servant, and he doesn't answer, even if I beg him for a favor!
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
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"My wife can't stand my breath, I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
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Even young children despise me -if I stand up, they start jeering at me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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My bones stick to my skin and flesh; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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"Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Must you pursue me as God does, never satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
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I wish my words were written down, that they were inscribed in a scroll,
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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that, engraved with iron and filled with lead, they were cut into rock forever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
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"But I know that my Redeemer lives, that in the end he will rise on the dust;
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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so that after my skin has been thus destroyed, then even without my flesh, I will see God.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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I will see him for myself, my eyes, not someone else's, will behold him. My heart grows weak inside me!
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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"If you say, 'How will we persecute him?'-the root of the matter is found in me.
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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You had best fear the sword, for anger brings the punishment of the sword, so that you will know there is judgment!"