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Job’s Sixth Speech: A Response to Bildad
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
Job: My Redeemer Lives
Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
“How long will you torture me?
How long will you try to crush me with your words?
How long will you try to crush me with your words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
You have already insulted me ten times.
You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Even if I have sinned,
that is my concern, not yours.
that is my concern, not yours.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
You think you’re better than I am,
using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.
I protest, but there is no justice.
I protest, but there is no justice.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
He has plunged my path into darkness.
He has plunged my path into darkness.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
and removed the crown from my head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished.
He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
His fury burns against me;
he counts me as an enemy.
he counts me as an enemy.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
His troops advance.
They build up roads to attack me.
They camp all around my tent.
They build up roads to attack me.
They camp all around my tent.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
“My relatives stay far away,
and my friends have turned against me.
and my friends have turned against me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
My family is gone,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
and my close friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
My servants and maids consider me a stranger.
I am like a foreigner to them.
I am like a foreigner to them.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
When I call my servant, he doesn’t come;
I have to plead with him!
I have to plead with him!
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
My breath is repulsive to my wife.
I am rejected by my own family.
I am rejected by my own family.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Even young children despise me.
When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
My close friends detest me.
Those I loved have turned against me.
Those I loved have turned against me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
I have been reduced to skin and bones
and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for the hand of God has struck me.
for the hand of God has struck me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Must you also persecute me, like God does?
Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
“Oh, that my words could be recorded.
Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead,
engraved forever in the rock.
engraved forever in the rock.
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and he will stand upon the earth at last.
and he will stand upon the earth at last.
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
I will see him for myself.
Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.
I am overwhelmed at the thought!
Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.
I am overwhelmed at the thought!
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
“How dare you go on persecuting me,
saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?