Job:19 Parallel Bible - WLD BAS |
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| Job 19:1 | Then Job answered, | And Job made answer and said, |
| Job 19:2 | "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words? | How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? |
| Job 19:3 | You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me. | Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong. |
| Job 19:4 | If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself. | And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself. |
| Job 19:5 | If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; | If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me, |
| Job 19:6 | Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net. | Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. |
| Job 19:7 | "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. | 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. |
| Job 19:8 | He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths. | My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. |
| Job 19:9 | He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. | He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. |
| Job 19:10 | He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree. | I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. |
| Job 19:11 | He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. | His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters. |
| Job 19:12 | His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent. | His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine. |
| Job 19:13 | "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. | He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. |
| Job 19:14 | My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. | My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. |
| Job 19:15 | Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. | I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. |
| Job 19:16 | I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth. | At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. |
| Job 19:17 | My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. | My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. |
| Job 19:18 | Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. | Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. |
| Job 19:19 | All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. | All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me. |
| Job 19:20 | My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth. |
| Job 19:21 | "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me. | Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me. |
| Job 19:22 | Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh? | Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me? |
| Job 19:23 | "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! |
| Job 19:24 | That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! | And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! |
| Job 19:25 | But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. | 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; |
| Job 19:26 | After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God, | And ... without my flesh I will see God; |
| Job 19:27 | Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me. | Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire. |
| Job 19:28 | If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me, | If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him: |
| Job 19:29 | Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment." | 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. |
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