| 19.1 |
Then Job answered, |
| 19.2 |
“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? |
| 19.3 |
You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. |
| 19.4 |
If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. |
| 19.5 |
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach; |
| 19.6 |
know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. |
| 19.7 |
“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. |
| 19.8 |
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths. |
| 19.9 |
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. |
| 19.10 |
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree. |
| 19.11 |
He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. |
| 19.12 |
His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. |
| 19.13 |
“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. |
| 19.14 |
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. |
| 19.15 |
Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. |
| 19.16 |
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. |
| 19.17 |
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. |
| 19.18 |
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. |
| 19.19 |
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. |
| 19.20 |
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
| 19.21 |
“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. |
| 19.22 |
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 19.23 |
“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
| 19.24 |
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! |
| 19.25 |
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. |
| 19.26 |
After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, |
| 19.27 |
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me. |
| 19.28 |
If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me, |
| 19.29 |
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” |
