Job’s Plea to God 1 AKJV My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. BSB BSB: “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 AKJV I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me. BSB BSB: I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
3 AKJV Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked? BSB BSB: Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4 AKJV Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees? BSB BSB: Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5 AKJV Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man’s days, BSB BSB: Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
6 AKJV That you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? BSB BSB: that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
7 AKJV You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand. BSB BSB: though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
8 AKJV Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me. BSB BSB: Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
9 AKJV Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again? BSB BSB: Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
10 AKJV Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? BSB BSB: Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
11 AKJV You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews. BSB BSB: You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 AKJV You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation has preserved my spirit. BSB BSB: You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13 AKJV And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you. BSB BSB: Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
14 AKJV If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity. BSB BSB: If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 AKJV If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction; BSB BSB: If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
16 AKJV For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me. BSB BSB: Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
17 AKJV You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me. BSB BSB: You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
18 AKJV Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! BSB BSB: Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
19 AKJV I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. BSB BSB: If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 AKJV Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, BSB BSB: Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
21 AKJV Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; BSB BSB: before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
22 AKJV A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. BSB BSB: to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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