Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
Job answered
and said,
And
Job answereth
and saith:
--
I have heard many such things :
miserable comforters are ye all.
I have heard many such things ,
Miserable comforters `
are '
ye all.
Shall
vain
words
have
an end? or what emboldeneth
thee that thou answerest?
Is
there
an end to
words
of
wind
? Or what doth
embolden
thee that thou answerest?
I also could
speak as
ye
do:
if your soul were in my soul's stead ,
I could
heap
up
words
against you, and shake
mine
head
at you.
I also ,
like
you,
might
speak ,
If your soul were in my soul's stead .
I might
join
against you with
words
, And nod
at you with
my
head
.
But
I would
strengthen
you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should
asswage
your
grief
.
I might
harden
you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might
be
sparing
.
Though
I speak, my grief
is not asswaged:
and though
I forbear,
what am
I
eased
?
If
I speak, my pain
is not restrained,
And I cease
--
what goeth
from
me
?
But
now he
hath made
me weary:
thou hast made
desolate
all my company .
Only,
now ,
it
hath wearied
me ;
Thou hast desolated
all my company ,
And thou hast
filled
me with
wrinkles
, which
is
a witness against me :
and
my leanness
rising
up
in me
beareth
witness
to
my face.
And Thou dost
loathe
me, For
a witness it
hath
been,
And
rise
up
against me doth
my failure,
In my face it
testifieth
.
He
teareth
me
in
his wrath
, who
hateth me :
he gnasheth
upon
me with his teeth ;
mine
enemy
sharpeneth his eyes upon
me.
His anger
hath
torn
, and
he
hateth me ,
He hath
gnashed
at
me with his teeth ,
My
adversary
sharpeneth his eyes for
me.
They have gaped upon
me with their mouth ;
they have smitten me
upon
the
cheek
reproachfully;
they
have
gathered
themselves
together against me.
They have gaped on
me with their mouth ,
In
reproach
they have smitten my
cheeks,
Together against me they
set
themselves
.
God hath
delivered
me to
the ungodly
, and turned
me
over
into
the hands of the wicked.
God shutteth
me up
unto
the perverse
, And to
the hands of the wicked turneth
me
over
.
I
was
at ease, but
he hath
broken
me asunder:
he hath also
taken
me
by
my neck, and shaken
me to
pieces, and set
me up
for his
mark.
At ease I
have
been
, and
he breaketh
me ,
And
he hath laid
hold
on
my neck, And he
breaketh
me in
pieces, And he
raiseth
me to
him
for a
mark.
His archers compass
me
round
about,
he cleaveth
my reins asunder
, and doth
not spare;
he poureth out my gall upon
the
ground
.
Go
round
against
me
do
his archers .
He splitteth
my reins, and spareth
not ,
He poureth out to
the
earth
my gall.
He breaketh me with
breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like
a giant
.
He breaketh me --
breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as
a mighty
one
.
I have sewed sackcloth
upon
my skin, and defiled
my
horn
in the dust.
Sackcloth
I have sewed on
my skin, And have
rolled
in the dust my
horn
.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my
eyelids is the
shadow
of
death ;
My face is foul with weeping, And on mine
eyelids `
is '
death -shade.
Not for any
injustice
in mine
hands :
also
my prayer is pure.
Not for violence
in my
hands ,
And
my prayer `
is '
pure.
O earth, cover
not thou my blood ,
and let my cry have
no
place
.
O earth, do
not thou cover
my blood !
And let there
not
be
a
place
for
my cry.
Also now, behold
, my witness is
in
heaven
, and my record
is
on
high.
Also ,
now, lo
, in
the
heavens
`is'
my witness, And my testifier
in
the
high places
.
My friends
scorn
me:
but
mine
eye
poureth
out
tears
unto God .
My interpreter
`is'
my
friend,
Unto God hath
mine
eye
dropped:
O
that
one
might
plead
for a man with God, as
a man pleadeth
for his neighbour!
And
he
reasoneth
for a man with God, And
a son
of
man for his friend.
When a few years are
come, then I
shall
go
the
way
whence
I shall
not
return.
When a few years do
come, Then a
path
I return not
do
I
go
.
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