Job Decries His Comforters 1 WBS Then Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 WBS I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. BSB BSB: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 WBS Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? BSB BSB: Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 WBS I also could speak as ye 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. BSB BSB: Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 WBS And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me : and my leanness rising up in me beareth 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 WBS He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth his eyes 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 WBS They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me. BSB BSB: They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 WBS God hath 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 WBS I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath 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 WBS His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth 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 WBS He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. BSB BSB: He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
15 WBS I have sewed sackcloth upon 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 WBS My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the shades of death; BSB BSB: My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
17 WBS 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 WBS O earth, cover not thou 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 WBS 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 WBS My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God. BSB BSB: My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 WBS O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! BSB BSB: Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
22 WBS When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence 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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