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19:1  Then Job spoke again:
19:2  "How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?
19:3  You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
19:4  Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.
19:5  You think you're better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
19:6  But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.
19:7  "I cry out, 'Help!' but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.
19:8  God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.
19:9  He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
19:10  He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
19:11  His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.
19:12  His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.
19:13  "My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.
19:14  My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
19:16  When I call my servant, he doesn't come; I have to plead with him!
19:17  My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family.
19:18  Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
19:19  My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.
19:20  I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  "Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22  Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven't you chewed me up enough?
19:23  "Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
19:24  carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.
19:25  "But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.
19:26  And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!
19:27  I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!
19:28  "How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, 'It's his own fault'?
19:29  You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment."