Parallel Chapters Job: My Redeemer Lives | 1Then Job replied: | 1Then Job answered and said: | 1Then Job responded, | 1Then Job answered and said, | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2"How long will you torment me and crush me with words? | 2“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? | 2"How long will you torment me And crush me with words? | 2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | 2How long will you torment me and crush me with words? |
| 3Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me. | 3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? | 3"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me. | 3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. | 3You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame. |
| 4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone. | 4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. | 4"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me. | 4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. | 4Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me. |
| 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, | 5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, | 5"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me, | 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: | 5If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me, |
| 6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me. | 6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. | 6Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me. | 6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. | 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net. |
| 7"Though I cry, 'Violence!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. | 7Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. | 7"Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. | 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. | 7I cry out: "Violence!" but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness. | 8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. | 8"He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. | 8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. | 8He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; He has veiled my paths with darkness. |
| 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. | 9He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. | 9"He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head. | 9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. |
| 10He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree. | 10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. | 10"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree. | 10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. | 10He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree. |
| 11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies. | 11He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. | 11"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy. | 11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. | 11His anger burns against me, and He regards me as one of His enemies. |
| 12His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. | 12His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. | 12"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent. | 12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. | 12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and camp around my tent. |
| 13"He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. | 13“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. | 13"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. | 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. | 13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. |
| 14My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me. | 14My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. | 14"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me. | 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. | 14My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me. |
| 15My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger. | 15The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. | 15"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. | 15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. | 15My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. |
| 16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth. | 16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. | 16"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth. | 16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. | 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth. |
| 17My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. | 17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. | 17"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers. | 17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. | 17My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family finds me repulsive. |
| 18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me. | 18Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. | 18"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me. | 18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. | 18Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me. |
| 19All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me. | 19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. | 19"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. | 19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. | 19All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me. |
| 20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. | 20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | 20"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. | 20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. | 20My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21"Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. | 21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! | 21"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me. | 21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. | 21Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God's hand has struck me. |
| 22Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? | 22Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? | 22"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh? | 22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | 22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? |
| 23"Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, | 23“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | 23"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | 23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! | 23I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll |
| 24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever! | 24Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! | 24"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! | 24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! | 24or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead! |
| 25I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. | 25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. | 25"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. | 25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: | 25But I know my living Redeemer, and He will stand on the dust at last. |
| 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; | 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, | 26"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; | 26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: | 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh. |
| 27I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! | 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! | 27Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! | 27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. | 27I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me. |
| 28"If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,' | 28If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’ | 28"If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?' | 28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? | 28If you say, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?" |
| 29you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment." | 29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” | 29"Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment." | 29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. | 29then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment. |
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