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Job’s Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
And Job answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
“If my misery could be weighed
and my troubles be put on the scales,
and my troubles be put on the scales,
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
they would outweigh all the sands of the sea.
That is why I spoke impulsively.
That is why I spoke impulsively.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement.
For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows.
Their poison infects my spirit.
God’s terrors are lined up against me.
Their poison infects my spirit.
God’s terrors are lined up against me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.
Don’t I have a right to complain?
Don’t wild donkeys bray when they find no grass,
and oxen bellow when they have no food?
Don’t wild donkeys bray when they find no grass,
and oxen bellow when they have no food?
Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?
Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
My appetite disappears when I look at it;
I gag at the thought of eating it!
I gag at the thought of eating it!
What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.
“Oh, that I might have my request,
that God would grant my desire.
that God would grant my desire.
Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!
I wish he would crush me.
I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
At least I can take comfort in this:
Despite the pain,
I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Despite the pain,
I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
But I don’t have the strength to endure.
I have nothing to live for.
I have nothing to live for.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?
Do I have the strength of a stone?
Is my body made of bronze?
Is my body made of bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? is my flesh of brass?
No, I am utterly helpless,
without any chance of success.
without any chance of success.
Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
For him that is fainting kindness [is meet] from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
My brothers, you have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook
that overflows its banks in the spring
that overflows its banks in the spring
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,
when it is swollen with ice and melting snow.
Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:
But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears.
The brook vanishes in the heat.
The brook vanishes in the heat.
At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:
The caravans turn aside to be refreshed,
but there is nothing to drink, so they die.
but there is nothing to drink, so they die.
They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
The caravans from Tema search for this water;
the travelers from Sheba hope to find it.
the travelers from Sheba hope to find it.
The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba counted on them:
They count on it but are disappointed.
When they arrive, their hopes are dashed.
When they arrive, their hopes are dashed.
They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.
You, too, have given no help.
You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.
You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.
So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.
But why? Have I ever asked you for a gift?
Have I begged for anything of yours for myself?
Have I begged for anything of yours for myself?
Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?
Have I asked you to rescue me from my enemies,
or to save me from ruthless people?
or to save me from ruthless people?
Or, rescue me from the hand of the oppressor, and redeem me from the hand of the violent?
Teach me, and I will keep quiet.
Show me what I have done wrong.
Show me what I have done wrong.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Honest words can be painful,
but what do your criticisms amount to?
but what do your criticisms amount to?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
Do you think your words are convincing
when you disregard my cry of desperation?
when you disregard my cry of desperation?
Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
Look at me!
Would I lie to your face?
Would I lie to your face?
Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.
Stop assuming my guilt,
for I have done no wrong.
for I have done no wrong.
Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.