Job 19:1–20:29
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Job 19:1–20:29 · Psalm 94 (MT: 95) · Proverbs 23:4–5 · Romans 13:1–14
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1Then Job answered and said,
1Then Job answered,
2How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
2“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
3Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
3You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
4Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right [to speak]; and my words err, and are unseasonable.
4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
6Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me .
6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
7Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment.
7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
9And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.
9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10He has torn me round about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.
10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
11And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.
11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
12His troops also came upon me with one accord, liers in wait compassed my ways.
12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
13My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognised strangers [rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless.
13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.
14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15[As for] my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.
15Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
16I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated [him].
16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
17And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines.
17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.
18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
20My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth.
20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.
21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?
22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book for ever,
23“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
24That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,
25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
26[and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;
26After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
27which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in [my] bosom.
27whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
28But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and [so] find the root of the matter in him?
28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
29Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is .
29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
1Then Sophar the Minæan answered and said,
1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
2I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.
2“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
3I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
4Hast thou [not] known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?
4Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
5But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:
5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds.
6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
7For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?
7yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.
8He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9The eye has looked upon him, but shall not [see him] again; and his place shall no longer perceive him .
9The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
10Let [his] inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.
10His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
11His bones have been filled with [vigour of] his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.
11His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
12Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue;
12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
13though he will not spare it, and will not leave it , but will keep it in the midst of his throat:
13though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
14yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.
14yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15[His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house.
15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.
16He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
17Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.
17He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
18He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, [for] wealth of which he shall not taste: [it is] as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.
18He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
19For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built [it] not .
19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
20There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire.
20“Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
21There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish.
21There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him.
22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
23If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him .
23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
24And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him .
24He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
25And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him.
25He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
26And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house.
26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
27And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.
27The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.
28Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.
28The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
29This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods [appointed him] by the all-seeing [God].
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”