Job Decries His Comforters 1 UEB Then Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 UEB "I have heard many such things; you are all miserable comforters. BSB BSB: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 UEB Will useless words ever have an end? What is wrong with you that you answer like this? BSB BSB: Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 UEB I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could collect and join words together against you and shake my head at you in mockery. 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 UEB I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the quivering of my lips will bring you relief! BSB BSB: But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 UEB If I speak, my grief is not lessened; if I keep from speaking, how am I helped? BSB BSB: Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 UEB But now, God, you have made me weary; you have made all my family desolate. BSB BSB: Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 UEB You have made me dry up, which itself is a witness against me; the leanness of my body rises up against me, and it testifies against my face. BSB BSB: You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9 UEB God has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me; He grinds his teeth in rage; my enemy fastens his eyes on me as he tears me apart. BSB BSB: His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10 UEB People have gaped with open mouth at me; they have hit me reproachfully on the cheek; they have gathered together against me. BSB BSB: They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 UEB God hands me over to ungodly people, and throws me into the hands of wicked people. BSB BSB: God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
12 UEB I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Indeed, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he has also set me up as his target. 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 UEB His archers surround me all around; God pierces my kidneys and does not spare me; he pours out my bile on the ground. BSB BSB: His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
14 UEB He smashes through my wall again and again; he runs upon me like a warrior. BSB BSB: He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15 UEB I have sewn sackcloth on my skin; I have thrust my horn into the ground. BSB BSB: I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
16 UEB My face is red with weeping; on my eyelids is the shadow of death BSB BSB: My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 UEB although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. BSB BSB: yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
18 UEB Earth, do not cover up my blood; let my cry have no resting place. BSB BSB: O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
19 UEB Even now, see, my witness is in heaven; he who vouches for me is on high. BSB BSB: Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
20 UEB My friends scoff at 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 UEB I ask for that witness in heaven to argue for this man with God as a man does with his neighbor! BSB BSB: Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22 UEB For when a few years have passed, I will go to a place from where I will not return. BSB BSB: For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
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