Welcome to our website where we explore the Bible! Pleasure to meet you here!
May your journey into the world of the Holy Scriptures be engaging and inspiring!
You can change reading language: uk ru
Parallel
New Living Translation
King James Bible
Job’s Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
But Job answered and said,
But 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 throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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 sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array 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 when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or 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!
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
“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 me the thing that I long for!
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.
Even that it would please God to destroy 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; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed 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 prolong my life?
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? or is my flesh of brass?
No, I am utterly helpless,
without any chance of success.
without any chance of success.
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but 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 brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
when it is swollen with ice and melting snow.
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears.
The brook vanishes in the heat.
The brook vanishes in the heat.
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of 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.
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, 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 troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
They count on it but are disappointed.
When they arrive, their hopes are dashed.
When they arrive, their hopes are dashed.
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
You, too, have given no help.
You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.
You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, 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? or, Give a reward for me of 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, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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 arguing 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, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Look at me!
Would I lie to your face?
Would I lie to your face?
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Stop assuming my guilt,
for I have done no wrong.
for I have done no wrong.
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.