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Job Says He Has Become a Byword | ||||
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| 1 "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. | 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. | 1 "My spirit is broken. My days have been snuffed out. The cemetery [is waiting] for me. | 1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. | 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine. | 2 "Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation. | 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? | 2 Certainly, mockers are around me. My eyes are focused on their opposition. | 2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. | 2 Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation? | 3 "Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor? | 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? | 3 Please guarantee my bail yourself. Who else will guarantee it with a handshake? | 3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? | 3 Lay down now a pledge, be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me? | 4 "For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them. | 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. | 4 You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them. | 4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them. | 4 For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them. | 5 "He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish. | 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. | 5 (Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children's eyesight fail.) | 5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. | 5 He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 6 "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit. | 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. | 6 "Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people. Now they spit in my face. | 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. | 6 And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face. | 7 "My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow. | 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. | 7 Now my eyes are blurred from grief. Now all my limbs are like a shadow. | 7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. | 7 And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. | 8 "The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless. | 8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. | 8 Decent people are shocked by this, and it stirs up the innocent against godless people. | 8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. | 8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly; | 9 "Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. | 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. | 9 Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. | 9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. | 9 But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength. | 10 "But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you. | 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. | 10 "But now, all of you, come and try again! I won't find one wise man among you. | 10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you. | 10 But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 11 "My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart. | 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. | 11 My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams [are shattered]. | 11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. | 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart. | 12 "They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness. | 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. | 12 You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness. | 12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness. | 12 They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness. | 13 "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; | 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. | 13 If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness, | 13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, | 13 If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: | 14 If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister'; | 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. | 14 if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and sister,' | 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' | 14 I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! | 15 Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope? | 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? | 15 then where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me? | 15 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? | 15 And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it? | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 16 "Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?" | 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. | 16 Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?" Why Do You Think You Are So Great, Job? | 16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?" | 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust. |
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