Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
But
Job answered
and said,
And
Job answereth
and saith:
--
Oh
that my grief
were throughly
weighed, and my calamity laid
in the
balances together!
O
that my provocation
were thoroughly
weighed, And my calamity in balances They
would
lift
up
together!
For now it
would
be
heavier
than the sand
of the sea :
therefore my words are
swallowed
up
.
For now ,
than the sands
of the sea it
is
heavier,
Therefore my words have
been
rash
.
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 .
For arrows of the Mighty
`
are '
with
me, Whose
poison is
drinking
up my spirit .
Terrors of God array themselves
`for'
me !
Doth
the
wild ass bray
when
he
hath
grass? or
loweth the
ox over his fodder
?
Brayeth
a
wild ass over
tender
grass? Loweth an
ox over his provender
?
Can
that
which
is
unsavoury
be
eaten without salt? or
is there any
taste
in the white
of an
egg
?
Eaten is
an
insipid
thing
without salt? Is there sense
in the drivel
of dreams
?
The
things
that
my soul refused
to touch are as my sorrowful
meat
.
My soul is
refusing
to touch !
They
`
are '
as my sickening
food
.
Oh
that I
might
have
my request ;
and
that God would
grant me
the
thing
that
I
long
for
!
O
that my request may
come,
That God may
grant my
hope
!
Even
that it
would please God
to
destroy
me ;
that
he
would
let
loose his hand ,
and cut me off!
That God
would please --
and
bruise
me ,
Loose His hand and cut me off!
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.
And
yet it
is
my
comfort, (And
I exult
in pain
--
He
doth
not spare ,)
That
I have not hidden
The sayings
of the Holy One.
What is my strength,
that I should hope? and what is
mine end ,
that I should prolong my life?
What `
is '
my power
that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or
is my flesh of
brass
?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen
?
Is not my help in
me ?
and is
wisdom
driven quite
from me?
Is not my help with
me ,
And substance
driven from me?
To him
that
is
afflicted
pity
should
be
shewed
from
his friend;
but
he
forsaketh
the fear of the Almighty
.
To a
despiser
of
his friends
`is'
shame,
And
the fear of the Mighty
he
forsaketh
.
My brethren have dealt
deceitfully
as a brook, and
as the
stream of brooks they pass away ;
My brethren have deceived
as a brook, As a
stream of brooks they pass away .
Which
are blackish
by
reason
of the
ice, and
wherein
the
snow is
hid:
That
are black
because
of ice, By
them
doth
snow hide
itself.
What
time they wax
warm ,
they vanish:
when
it
is
hot
, they are
consumed
out
of
their place.
By
the
time they are
warm they have
been
cut
off
, By
its
being
hot
they have
been
Extinguished
from
their place.
The paths of their way are
turned
aside;
they go
to
nothing
, and perish
.
Turn
aside
do
the paths of their way ,
They ascend
into
emptiness
, and are
lost
.
The
troops
of Tema looked, the
companies
of Sheba waited
for them.
Passengers
of Tema looked expectingly
, Travellers
of Sheba hoped
for them.
They were confounded
because
they
had
hoped;
they
came
thither
, and were
ashamed
.
They were ashamed
that
one
hath
trusted
, They
have
come
unto
it
and are
confounded
.
For
now ye are
nothing;
ye see my
casting
down
, and are afraid.
Surely
now ye have
become
the
same!
Ye see a
downfall
, and are afraid.
Did
I say
, Bring
unto
me? or
, Give
a
reward
for me of
your
substance
?
Is
it
because
I said
, Give
to
me? And
, By
your
power
bribe
for me?
Or
, Deliver me from the enemy's
hand? or
, Redeem
me
from the hand of the
mighty
?
And
, Deliver me from the hand of
an
adversary
? And
, From the hand of terrible
ones
ransom
me
?
Teach
me, and I will
hold
my
tongue:
and cause
me
to
understand
wherein
I have erred.
Shew
me, and I --
I
keep
silent,
And what
I have erred ,
let
me
understand
.
How forcible
are
right
words!
but
what doth your
arguing
reprove?
How powerful
have
been
upright
sayings,
And
what doth reproof
from
you
reprove?
Do ye
imagine
to
reprove
words ,
and the
speeches
of one
that
is
desperate ,
which
are
as
wind?
For
reproof
--
do you
reckon
words ?
And for
wind
--
sayings
of the
desperate .
Yea,
ye
overwhelm
the fatherless, and ye
dig
a
pit
for
your friend.
Anger
on
the fatherless ye
cause
to
fall
, And are
strange
to
your friend.
Now therefore
be
content
, look upon me ;
for
it
is
evident
unto
you
if
I lie .
And,
now, please,
look upon me ,
Even
to
your
face
do
I lie ?
Return
, I pray you, let it not be iniquity;
yea, return
again ,
my righteousness is in it.
Turn
back
, I pray you, let it not be perverseness,
Yea, turn
back
again --
my righteousness `
is '
in it.
Is there iniquity
in my tongue? cannot
my taste
discern
perverse
things?
Is there in my tongue perverseness
? Discerneth
not
my palate
desirable
things?
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