Dual Panel1Then Job <0347> answered <06030>:
2“How <0575> long <05704> will you torment <03013> me <05315> and crush <01792> me with your words <04405>?
3These <02088> ten <06235> times <06471> you have been reproaching <03637> me; you are not <03808> ashamed <0954> to attack <01970> me!
4But even <0637> if it were true <0551> that I have erred <07686>, my error <04879> remains <03885> solely my concern!
5If <0518> indeed <0551> you would exalt <01431> yourselves above <05921> me and plead <03198> my disgrace <02781> against <05921> me,
6know <03045> then <0645> that <03588> God <0433> has wronged <05791> me and encircled <05362> me with <05921> his net <04686>.
7“If <02005> I cry out <06817>, ‘Violence <02555>!’ I receive <06030> no <03808> answer <06030>; I cry for help <07768>, but there is no <0369> justice <04941>.
8He has blocked <01443> my way <0734> so I cannot <03808> pass <05674>, and has set <07760> darkness <02822> over <05921> my paths <05410>.
9He has stripped <06584> me of <05921> my honor <03519> and has taken <05493> the crown <05850> off <05493> my head <07218>.
10He tears <05422> me down <05422> on every side <05439> until I perish <01980>; he uproots <05265> my hope <08615> like one uproots a tree <06086>.
11Thus his anger <0639> burns <02734> against <05921> me, and he considers <02803> me among his enemies <06862>.
12His troops <01416> advance <0935> together <03162>; they throw up <05549> a siege ramp <01870> against <05921> me, and they camp <02583> around <05439> my tent <0168>.
13“He has put <07368> my relatives <0251> far <07368> from <05921> me; my acquaintances <03045> only <0389> turn away <02114> from <04480> me.
14My kinsmen <07138> have failed <02308> me; my friends <03045> have forgotten <07911> me.
15My guests <01481> and my servant girls <0519> consider <02803> me a stranger <02114>; I am <01961> a foreigner <05237> in their eyes <05869>.
16I summon <07121> my servant <05650>, but he does not <03808> respond <06030>, even though I implore <02603> him with <01119> my own mouth <06310>.
17My breath <07307> is repulsive <02114> to my wife <0802>; I am loathsome <02603> to my brothers <0990> <01121>.
18Even <01571> youngsters <05759> have scorned <03988> me; when I get up <06965>, they scoff <01696> at me.
19All <03605> my closest <05475> friends <04962> detest <08581> me; and those whom I love <0157> have turned <02015> against me.
20My bones <06106> stick <01692> to my skin <05785> and my flesh <01320>; I have escaped <04422> alive with only the skin <05785> of my teeth <08127>.
21Have pity <02603> on me, my friends <07453>, have pity <02603> on me, for <03588> the hand <03027> of God <0433> has struck <05060> me.
22Why <04100> do you pursue <07291> me like <03644> God <0410> does? Will you never <03808> be satiated <07646> with my flesh <01320>?
23“O <04310> that <05414> my words <04405> were written down <03789>, O <05414> <04310> that they were written <02710> on a scroll <05612>,
24that with an iron <01270> chisel <05842> and with lead <05777> they were engraved <02672> in a rock <06697> forever <05703>!
25As for me, I <0589> know <03045> that my Redeemer <01350> lives <02416>, and that as the last <0314> he will stand <06965> upon <05921> the earth <06083>.
26And after <0310> my skin <05785> has been destroyed <05362>, yet <02063> in my flesh <01320> I will see <02372> God <0433>,
27whom <0834> I <0589> will see <02372> for myself, and whom my own eyes <05869> will behold <07200>, and not <03808> another <02114>. My heart <03629> grows faint <03615> within <02436> me.
28If <03588> you say <0559>, ‘How <04100> we will pursue <07291> him, since the root <08328> of the trouble <01697> is found <04672> in him!’
29Fear <01481> the sword <02719> yourselves, for <03588> wrath <02534> brings the punishment <05771> by the sword <02719>, so that <04616> you may know <03045> that there is judgment <01779>.”