< Job 19 >

1 and to answer Job and to say
Job replied,
2 till where? to suffer [emph?] soul: myself my and to crush me in/on/with speech
“How long will you go on tormenting me? How long will you go on crushing me with words?
3 this ten beat be humiliated me not be ashamed to wrong to/for me
Ten times already you have humiliated me. Aren't you ashamed for treating me so badly?
4 and also truly to wander with me to lodge error my
Even if I did sin, that's my problem, and has nothing to do with you.
5 if truly upon me to magnify and to rebuke upon me reproach my
You think you're so much better than me, and you use my degradation against me.
6 to know then for god to pervert me and net his upon me to surround
But you should realize that it's God who has wronged me, he has trapped me in his net.
7 look! to cry violence and not to answer to cry and nothing justice
Even though I cry for help, I get no answer; even though I shout my objections, I get no justice.
8 way my to wall up/off and not to pass and upon path my darkness to set: make
God has walled me in so I can't escape; he has plunged my path into darkness.
9 glory my from upon me to strip and to turn aside: remove crown head my
He has stripped my honor from me; he has taken away my reputation.
10 to tear me around: side and to go: went and to set out like/as tree hope my
He tears me down from all sides until I am finished; he has destroyed my hope like a tree that is uprooted.
11 and to be incensed upon me face: anger his and to devise: think me to/for him like/as enemy his
His anger burns against me; he treats me as one of his enemies.
12 unitedness to come (in): come band his and to build upon me way: road their and to camp around to/for tent my
God's troops assemble to attack me. They build ramparts against me. They encircle and besiege my home.
13 brother: male-sibling my from upon me to remove and to know me surely be a stranger from me
He has driven my brothers far away from me; all my former friends are estranged from me.
14 to cease near my and to know my to forget me
My relatives have abandoned me; my close friends have forgotten me.
15 to sojourn house: home my and maidservant my to/for be a stranger to devise: think me foreign to be in/on/with eye their
My house guests and my maidservants treat me as a stranger—to them I have become a foreigner.
16 to/for servant/slave my to call: call to and not to answer in/at/by lip my be gracious to/for him
I call my servant, but he doesn't reply. I have to beg him!
17 spirit: breath my be loathsome to/for woman: wife my and be loathsome to/for son: child belly: womb my
I am repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own brothers.
18 also boy to reject in/on/with me to arise: rise and to speak: speak in/on/with me
Even young children despise me; when I stand up they ridicule me.
19 to abhor me all man counsel my and this to love: lover to overturn in/on/with me
All my closest friends despise me, and those I loved have turned on me.
20 in/on/with skin my and in/on/with flesh my to cleave bone my and to escape [emph?] in/on/with skin tooth my
I've been reduced to skin and bones and I survive by the skin of my teeth.
21 be gracious me be gracious me you(m. p.) neighbor my for hand: power god to touch in/on/with me
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, because God has struck me down!
22 to/for what? to pursue me like God and from flesh my not to satisfy
Why are you persecuting me like God does? Aren't you satisfied with getting your pound of flesh?
23 who? to give: if only! then and to write [emph?] speech my who? to give: if only! in/on/with scroll: book and to decree
I wish my words could be written down, recorded in a book,
24 in/on/with stylus iron and lead to/for perpetuity in/on/with rock to hew [emph?]
or engraved with an iron pen and molten lead in the rock forever.
25 and I to know to redeem: redeem my alive and last upon dust to arise: establish
I know my Redeemer is alive, and that he shall finally take the stand for me on the earth.
26 and after skin my to strike this and from flesh my to see god
Even though my skin is destroyed, in my body I shall see God.
27 which I to see to/for me and eye my to see: see and not be a stranger to end: expend kidney my in/on/with bosom: embrace my
I myself will see him—with my own eyes, and not those of someone else! The thought overcomes me!
28 for to say what? to pursue to/for him and root word: thing to find in/on/with me
You say to yourselves, ‘How can we make him suffer so he can see he is the source of his problems?’
29 to dread to/for you from face of sword for rage iniquity: punishment sword because to know [emph?] (which/that judgment *Qk)
You yourselves should fear being punished by God, for you know anger brings God's punishment that accompanies judgment.”

< Job 19 >