Post by 1QKbAP…Zq8U

His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as {one of} his enemies.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked}

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}

I called my servant, and he gave {me} no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but {there is} no judgment. {wrong: or, violence}

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed {that} ye make yourselves strange to me. {make...: or, harden yourselves against me}

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

And be it indeed {that} I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

Then Job answered and said,

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret}

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown {from} my head.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's {sake} of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly}

If indeed ye will magnify {yourselves} against me, and plead against me my reproach:

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! {Oh...: Heb. Who will give, etc}

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

And {though} after my skin {worms} destroy this {body}, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; {though} my reins be consumed within me. {another: Heb. a stranger} {though...: or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire (for that day} {within...: Heb. in my bosom}

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath {bringeth} the punishments of the sword, that ye may know {there is} a judgment.

For I know {that} my redeemer liveth, and {that} he shall stand at the latter {day} upon the earth:

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? {seeing...: or, and what root of matter is found in me?}