Job Decries His Comforters 1 AKJV Then Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 AKJV I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. BSB BSB: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 AKJV Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer? BSB BSB: Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 AKJV I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. BSB BSB: I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5 AKJV But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. BSB BSB: But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 AKJV Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? BSB BSB: Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 AKJV But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company. BSB BSB: Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 AKJV And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face. BSB BSB: You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9 AKJV He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes on me. BSB BSB: His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10 AKJV They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. BSB BSB: They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 AKJV God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. BSB BSB: God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
12 AKJV I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. BSB BSB: I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
13 AKJV His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. BSB BSB: His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
14 AKJV He breaks me with breach on breach, he runs on me like a giant. BSB BSB: He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15 AKJV I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. BSB BSB: I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
16 AKJV My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; BSB BSB: My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 AKJV Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure. BSB BSB: yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 AKJV O earth, cover not you my blood, and let my cry have no place. BSB BSB: O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
19 AKJV Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. BSB BSB: Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20 AKJV My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God. BSB BSB: My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 AKJV O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor! BSB BSB: Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22 AKJV When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return. BSB BSB: For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
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