New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 10
16 And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.
17 Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me.
18 “‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
19 It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave.
20 I have only a few days left, so leave me alone, that I may have a moment of comfort
21 before I leave—never to return— for the land of darkness and utter gloom.
22 It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’”
Job 11
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied to Job:
2 “Shouldn’t someone answer this torrent of words? Is a person proved innocent just by a lot of talking?
3 Should I remain silent while you babble on? When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed?
4 You claim, ‘My beliefs are pure,’ and ‘I am clean in the sight of God.’
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