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Job
Explores the themes of suffering and faith through the story of Job, a man tested by losing everything.
Chapter 19
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1
KJV:
Then Job answered and said,
Geneva:
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2
KJV:
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Geneva:
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
3
KJV:
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Geneva:
Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
4
KJV:
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Geneva:
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
5
KJV:
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Geneva:
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
6
KJV:
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Geneva:
Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7
KJV:
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Geneva:
Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
8
KJV:
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Geneva:
Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9
KJV:
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Geneva:
Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
10
KJV:
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Geneva:
He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
11
KJV:
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Geneva:
And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
12
KJV:
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Geneva:
His armies came together, & made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13
KJV:
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Geneva:
He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
14
KJV:
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Geneva:
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
15
KJV:
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Geneva:
They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
16
KJV:
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Geneva:
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
17
KJV:
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
Geneva:
My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18
KJV:
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Geneva:
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19
KJV:
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Geneva:
All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.
20
KJV:
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Geneva:
My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21
KJV:
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Geneva:
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
22
KJV:
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Geneva:
Why do ye persecute me, as God? & are not satisfied with my flesh?
23
KJV:
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Geneva:
Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
24
KJV:
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Geneva:
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
25
KJV:
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Geneva:
For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26
KJV:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Geneva:
And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
27
KJV:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Geneva:
Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
28
KJV:
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Geneva:
But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
29
KJV:
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Geneva:
Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
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