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Job 16:11

New International Reader's Version

God has turned me over to sinful people. He has handed me over to them.

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Does it make you happy when you crush me? Does it please you to turn your back on what you have made? While you do those things, you smile on the plans of sinful people!

People make fun of me. They slap my face and laugh at me. All of them join together against me.

Everything was going well with me. But he broke me into pieces like a clay pot. He grabbed me by the neck and crushed me. He has taken aim at me.

Why do you chase after me as he does? Aren’t you satisfied with what you have done to me already?

Then I want you to know that God hasn’t treated me right. In fact, he has captured me in his net.

Then Satan left the Lord and went on his way. He sent painful sores on Job. They covered him from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.

“God hasn’t treated me fairly. The Mighty One has made my life bitter. You can be sure that God lives. And here’s something else you can be sure of.

“Would you dare to claim that I am not being fair? Would you judge me in order to make yourself seem right?

Suppose a nation falls into the power of sinful people. Then God makes its judges blind to the truth. If he isn’t the one doing it, who is?

My enemies want to harm me. So don’t turn me over to them. Witnesses who tell lies are rising up against me. They say all sorts of evil things about me.

You have not handed me over to the enemy. You have put me in a wide and safe place.

Whoever is full of evil plans trouble and ends up telling lies.

Finally, Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be nailed to a cross. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.

God has found everyone guilty of not obeying him. So now he can have mercy on everyone.

God has shown me amazing and wonderful things. People should not think more of me because of it. So I wouldn’t become proud of myself, I was given a problem. This problem caused pain in my body. It is a messenger from Satan to make me suffer.

You have just now told me about the good things you did to me. The Lord handed me over to you. But you didn’t kill me.




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