Job Decries His Comforters 1 Brenton But Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 Brenton I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all. BSB BSB: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 Brenton What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering? BSB BSB: Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 Brenton I also will speak as ye do : if indeed your soul were in my soul's stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would 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 Brenton And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips. BSB BSB: But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 Brenton For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less? BSB BSB: Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 Brenton But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me. BSB BSB: Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 Brenton My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face. BSB BSB: You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9 Brenton In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon 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 Brenton He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp spear he has smitten me down upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord. BSB BSB: They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 Brenton For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. BSB BSB: God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
12 Brenton When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a 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 Brenton They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground. BSB BSB: His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
14 Brenton They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might. BSB BSB: He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15 Brenton They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. BSB BSB: I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
16 Brenton My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids. BSB BSB: My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 Brenton Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure. BSB BSB: yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 Brenton Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, 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 Brenton And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. BSB BSB: Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20 Brenton Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him. BSB BSB: My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 Brenton Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbour! BSB BSB: Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22 Brenton But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which 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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