Job Decries His Comforters 1 DRA Then Job answered, and said: BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 DRA I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters. BSB BSB: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 DRA Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak? BSB BSB: Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 DRA I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. 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 DRA I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. BSB BSB: But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 DRA I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you. BSB BSB: Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 DRA But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me. BSB BSB: Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 DRA But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing. My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. BSB BSB: You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9 DRA He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes. BSB BSB: His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10 DRA They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. BSB BSB: They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 DRA God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me 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 DRA I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be 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 DRA He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth. BSB BSB: His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
14 DRA He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant. BSB BSB: He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15 DRA I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes. BSB BSB: I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
16 DRA My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim. BSB BSB: My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 DRA These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God. BSB BSB: yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 DRA O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee. BSB BSB: O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
19 DRA For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high. BSB BSB: Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20 DRA My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. BSB BSB: My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 DRA And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion! BSB BSB: Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22 DRA For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path 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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