Job Continues His Response To Bildad
1 My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 “(a)(A)I loathe my own life;I will give full vent to (B)my complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 "I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
2 I will say to God:“Do not declare me guilty!Let me know why You prosecute me.
2 I'll say to God, "Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me.
3 Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
3 ‘Is it (b)right for You indeed to (D)oppress,To reject (E)the labor of Your hands,And (c)to look favorably on (F)the schemes of the wicked?
3 Is it good for You to oppress,to reject the work of Your hands,and favor(a) the plans of the wicked?
3 Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?
7 Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
7 ‘According to Your knowledge (J)I am indeed not guilty,Yet there is (K)no deliverance from Your hand.
7 even though You know that I am not wickedand that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
7 Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!
8 Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
8 “Your hands shaped me and formed me.Will You now turn and destroy me?
8 Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10 ‘Did You not pour me out like milkAnd curdle me like cheese;
10 Did You not pour me out like milkand curdle me like cheese?
10 Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,and wove me together with bones and tendons.
11 You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
12 You gave me life and faithful love,and Your care has guarded my life.
12 You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit.
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15 If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
15 ‘If (T)I am wicked, woe to me!And (U)if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.I am sated with disgrace and (e)conscious of my misery.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me!And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.I am filled with shameand aware of my affliction.(F)
15 ""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!
16 And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
16 ‘Should my head be lifted up, (V)You would hunt me like a lion;And again You would show Your (W)power against me.
16 But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
17 ‘You renew (X)Your witnesses against meAnd increase Your anger toward me;(f)(Y)Hardship after hardship is with me.
17 You produce new witnesses(e) against meand multiply Your anger toward me.Hardships assault me, wave after wave.(f)
17 ""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!
18 And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
18 So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
19 I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
19 ‘I should have been as though I had not been,Carried from womb to tomb.’
19 as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave.
22 A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
22 The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,Of deep shadow without order,And which shines as the darkness.”
22 It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,gloomy and chaotic,where even the light is like(i) the darkness.”
22 It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"