Category: Job

American Standard Version (ASV):
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

King James Version (KJV):
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

King James Version (KJV):
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

King James Version (KJV):
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

King James Version (KJV):
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

King James Version (KJV):
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.

King James Version (KJV):
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

King James Version (KJV):
Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

King James Version (KJV):
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

American Standard Version (ASV):
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

King James Version (KJV):
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

American Standard Version (ASV):
They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.

King James Version (KJV):
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.