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