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 and said,
2How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to 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.
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
5If indeed ye 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 hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment.
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.
9He hath 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 hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12His troops also came upon me with one accord, liers in wait compassed my ways.
12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognised strangers [rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless.
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15[As for] my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated [him].
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines.
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
18But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20My flesh is corrupt under my skin , and my bones are held in [my] teeth.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?
22Why do ye 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,
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day 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;
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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 shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be 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?
28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing 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 ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
1Then Sophar the Minæan answered and said,
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I .
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me .
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4Hast thou [not] known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon 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, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds.
6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto 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 shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall 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 shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as 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 also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10Let [his] inferiors destroy his children , and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.
10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
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 the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue;
12Though wickedness be 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 forsake it not; 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 meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15[His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger [of wrath] shall drag him out of his house.
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.
16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.
17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks 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.
18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
19For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built [it] not.
19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire.
20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish.
21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him.
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon 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 shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon 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 shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall 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.
25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon 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 shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.
27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall 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 shall depart, and his goods shall flow 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, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.