Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 Then Job answered and said,
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Then Job answered:
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
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"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
3 Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
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These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4 Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right ; and my words err, and are unreasonable.
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And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.
5 But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
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If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6 Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled , and has raised his bulwark against me.
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know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me.
7 Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: I will cry out, but nowhere judgment.
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Even when I cry out, "Violence!' I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8 I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
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He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.
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He has stripped my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.
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He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, he has uprooted my hope like a tree.
11 And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.
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He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
12 His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.
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His troops come on together; they have thrown up siegeworks against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers than me: and my friends have become pitiless.
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"He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.
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My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
15 my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.
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the guests in my house have forgotten me; my serving girls count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
16 I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated .
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I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must myself plead with him.
17 And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines.
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My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
18 But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.
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Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me.
19 They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in teeth.
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My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.
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Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
22 Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord , and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
23 For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever,
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"O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book!
24 with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
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O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!
25 For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,
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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
26 to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these : for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;
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and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,
27 which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in bosom.
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whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
28 But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and find the root of the matter in him?
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If you say, "How we will persecute him!' and, "The root of the matter is found in him';
29 Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.
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be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment."
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