Parallel Chapters Job Appeals from Men to God | 1My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me. | 1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. | 1"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. | 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. | 1My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me. |
| 2Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility. | 2Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. | 2"Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation. | 2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? | 2Surely mockers surround me and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion. |
| 3"Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me? | 3“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me? | 3"Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor? | 3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? | 3Make arrangements! Put up security for me. Who else will be my sponsor? |
| 4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph. | 4Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. | 4"For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them. | 4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. | 4You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore You will not honor them. |
| 5If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail. | 5He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. | 5"He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish. | 5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. | 5If a man informs on his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail. |
| 6"God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit. | 6“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. | 6"But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit. | 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. | 6He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at. |
| 7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow. | 7My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. | 7"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow. | 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. | 7My eyes have grown dim from grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow. |
| 8The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly. | 8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. | 8"The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless. | 8Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. | 8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are roused against the godless. |
| 9Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger. | 9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. | 9"Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. | 9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. | 9Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger. |
| 10"But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you. | 10But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. | 10"But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you. | 10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. | 10But come back and try again, all of you. I will not find a wise man among you. |
| 11My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart | 11My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. | 11"My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart. | 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. | 11My days have slipped by; my plans have been ruined, even the things dear to my heart. |
| 12turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near. | 12They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’ | 12"They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness. | 12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. | 12They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness. |
| 13If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness, | 13If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, | 13"If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; | 13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. | 13If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness, |
| 14if I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother' or 'My sister,' | 14if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ | 14If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister'; | 14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. | 14and say to corruption: You are my father, and to the maggot: My mother or my sister, |
| 15where then is my hope-- who can see any hope for me? | 15where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? | 15Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope? | 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? | 15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? |
| 16Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?" | 16Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?” | 16"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?" | 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. | 16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust? |
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