For Job has declared, “I am righteous,
yet God has deprived me of justice.(A)
Would I lie about my case?(B)
My wound[a] is incurable,
though I am without transgression.”
What man is like Job?
He drinks derision(C) like water.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 34:6 Lit arrow

“Job says, ‘I am innocent,(A)
    but God denies me justice.(B)
Although I am right,
    I am considered a liar;(C)
although I am guiltless,(D)
    his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’(E)
Is there anyone like Job,
    who drinks scorn like water?(F)

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