Job 19
Job 19
Then Job answered,
Verse 2. “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? Verse 3. You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. Verse 4. If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. Verse 5. If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach, Verse 6. know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. Verse 7. “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. Verse 8. He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths. Verse 9. He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. Verse 10. He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree. Verse 11. He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. Verse 12. His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. Verse 13. “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. Verse 14. My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. Verse 15. Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. Verse 16. I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. Verse 17. My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. Verse 18. Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. Verse 19. All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. Verse 20. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. Verse 21. “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. Verse 22. Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Verse 23. “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Verse 24. That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! Verse 25. But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. Verse 26. After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh, Verse 27. whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me. Verse 28. If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me, Verse 29. be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”