Job 19
Job Feels Insulted
1Then Job ▼▼ Lit answered and said
responded, 2“How long will you torment ▼▼ Lit my soul
meAnd crush me with words?
3“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
4“Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.
5“If indeed you cvaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
6Know then that dGod has wronged me
And has closed eHis net around me.
Everything Is against Him
7“Behold, fI cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;I shout for help, but there is no justice.
8“He has gwalled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put hdarkness on my paths.
9“He has istripped my honor from me
And removed the jcrown from my head.
10“He kbreaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my lhope mlike a tree.
11“He has also nkindled His anger against me
And oconsidered me as His enemy.
12“His ptroops come together,
And qbuild up their ▼
▼ I.e. siegework
way against meAnd camp around my tent.
13“He has sremoved my brothers far from me,
And my tacquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14“My relatives have failed,
And my uintimate friends have forgotten me.
15“Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.
16“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth.
17“My breath is ▼
▼ Lit strange
offensive to my wife,And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
18“Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me.
19“All ▼
▼ Lit the men of my council
my xassociates abhor me,And those I love have turned against me.
20“My ybone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the zhand of God has struck me.
22“Why do you aapersecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job Says, “My Redeemer Lives”
23“Oh that my words were written!Oh that they were abinscribed in a book!
24“That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
25“As for me, I know that acmy ▼
▼ Or Vindicator, defender; lit kinsman
Redeemer lives,And ▼
▼ Or as the Last
at the last He will take His stand on the ▼▼ Lit dust
earth.26“Even after my skin ▼
▼ Lit which they have cut off
is destroyed,Yet from my flesh I shall ahsee God;
27Whom I ▼
▼ Or on my side
myself shall behold,And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My ▼
▼ Lit kidneys
heart akfaints ▼▼ Lit in my loins
within me!28“If you say, ‘How shall we ampersecute him?’
And ‘ ▼
▼ Or the root of the matter is found in him
What pretext for a case against him can we find?’29“Then be afraid of aothe sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know apthere is judgment.”
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