Job 19
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job replied:
2 till where? to suffer [emph?] soul: myself my and to crush me in/on/with speech
“How long will you [three] torment me and crush my spirit by saying to me [that I am wicked]?
3 this ten beat be humiliated me not be ashamed to wrong to/for me
You have already insulted me many [HYP] times; (are you not ashamed for saying these things to me?/you should be ashamed for saying these things to me.) [RHQ]
4 and also truly to wander with me to lodge error my
Even if it were true that I have done things that are wrong, I have not injured you!
5 if truly upon me to magnify and to rebuke upon me reproach my
If you truly think that you are better than I am, and you think that my being miserable now proves that I (am guilty/have committed many sins),
6 to know then for god to pervert me and net his upon me to surround
you need to realize that it is God who has caused me to suffer. [It is as though] he has trapped me with his net.
7 look! to cry violence and not to answer to cry and nothing justice
“I cry out, ‘Help me!’, but no one answers me. I call out loudly, but there is no one, [not even God, ] who acts fairly toward me.
8 way my to wall up/off and not to pass and upon path my darkness to set: make
[It is as though] [MET] God has blocked my way, with the result that I cannot go where I want to; [it is as though] he has forced me to try to find my way in the darkness.
9 glory my from upon me to strip and to turn aside: remove crown head my
He has (taken away my good reputation/caused people not to honor me any more); [it is as though] he removed [MET] a crown from my head.
10 to tear me around: side and to go: went and to set out like/as tree hope my
He batters me from every side, and I will soon die. He has caused me to no longer confidently expect [him to do good things for me].
11 and to be incensed upon me face: anger his and to devise: think me to/for him like/as enemy his
He attacks me because he is extremely angry with me [MET], and he considers that I am his enemy.
12 unitedness to come (in): come band his and to build upon me way: road their and to camp around to/for tent my
[It is as though] he sends his army to attack me; they surround my tent, preparing to attack me.
13 brother: male-sibling my from upon me to remove and to know me surely be a stranger from me
“God has caused my brothers to abandon me, and all those who know me act like strangers to me.
14 to cease near my and to know my to forget me
All my relatives and good friends have left 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
The people who were guests in my house have forgotten me, and my female servants consider that I am a stranger or that I am 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
When I summon my servants, they do not answer; I plead with them to come [to help me, but they do not come].
17 spirit: breath my be loathsome to/for woman: wife my and be loathsome to/for son: child belly: womb my
My wife does not want to come close to me because my breath [smells very bad], and even my brothers detest me.
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 [to talk to them], they laugh at me.
19 to abhor me all man counsel my and this to love: lover to overturn in/on/with me
My dearest friends detest me, and those whom I love [very much] have turned against 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
My body is [only] skin and bones; I am barely alive [IDM].
21 be gracious me be gracious me you(m. p.) neighbor my for hand: power god to touch in/on/with me
[“I plead with] you, my [three] friends, pity me, because God has (struck [EUP] me with his hand/caused me to suffer greatly).
22 to/for what? to pursue me like God and from flesh my not to satisfy
Why do you cause me to suffer like God does? Why do you continue to slander [MET] me?
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/desire that someone would take these words of mine and write them permanently in a book [in order that people can read them].
24 in/on/with stylus iron and lead to/for perpetuity in/on/with rock to hew [emph?]
Or else, I wish that he would carve them on a rock with (a chisel/an iron tool) in order that they would last forever.
25 and I to know to redeem: redeem my alive and last upon dust to arise: establish
But I know that the one who vindicates/defends me in court is alive, and that some day he will stand [here] on the earth [and make the final decision about whether I deserve to be punished].
26 and after skin my to strike this and from flesh my to see god
And even after diseases have eaten away my skin, while I still have my body, I will 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 will see him myself; I will see him with my own eyes! I am overwhelmed [as I think about that]!
28 for to say what? to pursue to/for him and root word: thing to find in/on/with me
“If you three men say, ‘What more can we do to cause Job to suffer?’ and if you say, ‘He has caused his own [troubles],’
29 to dread to/for you from face of sword for rage iniquity: punishment sword because to know [emph?] (which/that judgment *Q(k)*)
you should be afraid that God will punish [MTY] you; he punishes those [like you] with whom he is angry; and when that happens, you will know that there is [someone who] judges [people].”
