Verse 3
Job 19:3
New Living Translation
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You have already insulted me ten times.<br>You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
זֶ֤ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּ֭עָמִים תַּכְלִימ֑וּ/נִי לֹֽא תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ תַּהְכְּרוּ לִֽ/י
English Translation
This is ten times you will be ashamed; do not be embarrassed, you will be ashamed of me.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 19 Context
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Then Job spoke again:
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“How long will you torture me?<br>How long will you try to crush me with your words?<br>
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You have already insulted me ten times.<br>You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.<br>
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Even if I have sinned,<br>that is my concern, not yours.<br>
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You think you’re better than I am,<br>using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.<br>
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But it is God (Elohim) who has wronged me,<br>capturing me in his net.<br>
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“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.<br>I protest, but there is no justice.<br>
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God (Elohim) has blocked my way so I cannot move.<br>He has plunged my path into darkness.<br>
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He has stripped me of my honor<br>and removed the crown from my head.<br>
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He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished.<br>He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree...
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His fury burns against me;<br>he counts me as an enemy.<br>
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His troops advance.<br>They build up roads to attack me.<br>They camp all around my tent.<br>
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“My relatives stay far away,<br>and my friends have turned against me.<br>
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My family is gone,<br>and my close friends have forgotten me.<br>
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My servants and maids consider me a stranger.<br>I am like a foreigner to them.<br>
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When I call my servant, he doesn’t come;<br>I have to plead with him!<br>
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My breath is repulsive to my wife.<br>I am rejected by my own family.<br>
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Even young children despise me.<br>When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.<br>
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My close friends detest me.<br>Those I loved have turned against me.<br>
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I have been reduced to skin and bones<br>and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.<br>
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“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,<br>for the hand of God (Elohim) has struck me.<br>
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Must you also persecute me, like God (Elohim) does?<br>Haven’t you chewed me up enough?<br>
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“Oh, that my words could be recorded.<br>Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,<br>
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carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead,<br>engraved forever in the rock.<br>
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“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,<br>and he will stand upon the earth at last.<br>
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And after my body has decayed,<br>yet in my body I will see God (Elohim)!<br>
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I will see him for myself.<br>Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.<br>I am overwhelmed at the thoug...
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“How dare you go on persecuting me,<br>saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?<br>
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You should fear punishment yourselves,<br>for your attitude deserves punishment.<br>Then you will kn...
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