Category: Job

American Standard Version (ASV):
Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

King James Version (KJV):
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?

King James Version (KJV):
Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

King James Version (KJV):
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

American Standard Version (ASV):
For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

King James Version (KJV):
Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?

King James Version (KJV):
Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

King James Version (KJV):
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

American Standard Version (ASV):
He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.

King James Version (KJV):
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

King James Version (KJV):
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.

American Standard Version (ASV):
But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .

King James Version (KJV):
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

American Standard Version (ASV):
But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

King James Version (KJV):
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.