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Job 19
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself)
Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me.
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment.
Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.
He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
He has torn me round about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.
His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
His troops also came upon me with one accord, liers in wait compassed my ways.
His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognised strangers [rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless.
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
[As for] my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated [him].
I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines.
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth.
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book for ever,
I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,
But I know that my Redeemer (note: Or Vindicator) lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth (note: Or on my grave).
[and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh (note: Or without my flesh) I will see God.
which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in [my] bosom.
I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns (note: Hebrew my kidneys yearn) within me!
But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and [so] find the root of the matter in him?
If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him (note: Many Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts with me),’
Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.
then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”