Job 16 - Compare Translations
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Job 16:1
KJVThen Job answered and said,
WEBThen Job answered,
YLTAnd Job answereth and saith: --
Job 16:2
KJVI have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
WEB“I have heard many such things.
YLTI have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.
Job 16:3
KJVShall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
WEBShall vain words have an end?
YLTIs there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 16:4
KJVI also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
WEBI also could speak as you do.
YLTI also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
Job 16:5
KJVBut I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
WEBbut I would strengthen you with my mouth.
YLTI might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
Job 16:6
KJVThough I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
WEB“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
YLTIf I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
Job 16:7
KJVBut now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
WEBBut now, God, you have surely worn me out.
YLTOnly, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
Job 16:8
KJVAnd thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
WEBYou have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
YLTAnd Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
Job 16:9
KJVHe teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
WEBHe has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me.
YLTHis anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.
Job 16:10
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Job 16:11
KJVGod hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
WEBGod delivers me to the ungodly,
YLTGod shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
Job 16:12
KJVI was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
WEBI was at ease, and he broke me apart.
YLTAt ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
Job 16:13
KJVHis archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
WEBHis archers surround me.
YLTGo round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
Job 16:14
KJVHe breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
WEBHe breaks me with breach on breach.
YLTHe breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
Job 16:15
KJVI have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
WEBI have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
YLTSackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
Job 16:16
KJVMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
WEBMy face is red with weeping.
YLTMy face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade.
Job 16:17
KJVNot for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
WEBAlthough there is no violence in my hands,
YLTNot for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.
Job 16:18
KJVO earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
WEB“Earth, don’t cover my blood.
YLTO earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
Job 16:19
KJVAlso now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
WEBEven now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
YLTAlso, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places.
Job 16:20
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Job 16:21
KJVO that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
WEBthat he would maintain the right of a man with God,
YLTAnd he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
Job 16:22
KJVWhen a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
WEBFor when a few years have come,
YLTWhen a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
22 verses compared across 3 translations - KJV, WEB, YLT