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Job 19

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEBThen Job answered,
    KJVThen Job answered and said,
  2. 2
    WEB“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
    KJVHow long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
  3. 3
    WEBYou have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
    KJVThese ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
  4. 4
    WEBIf it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
    KJVAnd be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
  5. 5
    WEBIf indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
    KJVIf indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
  6. 6
    WEBknow now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
    KJVKnow now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
  7. 7
    WEB“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
    KJVBehold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
  8. 8
    WEBHe has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
    KJVHe hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
  9. 9
    WEBHe has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
    KJVHe hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
  10. 10
    WEBHe has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
    KJVHe hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
  11. 11
    WEBHe has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
    KJVHe hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
  12. 12
    WEBHis troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
    KJVHis troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
  13. 13
    WEB“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
    KJVHe hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
  14. 14
    WEBMy relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
    KJVMy kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
  15. 15
    WEBThose who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
    KJVThey that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
  16. 16
    WEBI call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
    KJVI called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
  17. 17
    WEBMy breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
    KJVMy breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
  18. 18
    WEBEven young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
    KJVYea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
  19. 19
    WEBAll my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
    KJVAll my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
  20. 20
    WEBMy bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
    KJVMy bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
  21. 21
    WEB“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
    KJVHave pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
  22. 22
    WEBWhy do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
    KJVWhy do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  23. 23
    WEB“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
    KJVOh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
  24. 24
    WEBThat with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
    KJVThat they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
  25. 25
    WEBBut as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
    KJVFor I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
  26. 26
    WEBAfter my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
    KJVAnd though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
  27. 27
    WEBwhom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
    KJVWhom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
  28. 28
    WEBIf you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
    KJVBut ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
  29. 29
    WEBbe afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
    KJVBe ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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