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19:1  The reply of Job:
19:2  “How long are you going to trouble me, and try to break me with your words?
19:3  Ten times now you have declared I am a sinner. Why aren’t you ashamed to deal with me so harshly?
19:4  And if indeed I was wrong, you have yet to prove it.
19:5  You think yourselves so great? Then prove my guilt!
19:6  “The fact of the matter is that God has overthrown me and caught me in his net.
19:7  I scream for help and no one hears me. I shriek, but get no justice.
19:8  God has blocked my path and turned my light to darkness.
19:9  He has stripped me of my glory and removed the crown from my head.
19:10  He has broken me down on every side, and I am done for. He has destroyed all hope.
19:11  His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.
19:12  He sends his troops to surround my tent.
19:13  “He has sent away my brothers and my friends.
19:14  My relatives have failed me; my friends have all forsaken me.
19:15  Those living in my home, even my servants, regard me as a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
19:16  I call my servant, but he doesn’t come; I even beg him!
19:17  My own wife and brothers refuse to recognize me.
19:18  Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they mock.
19:19  “My best friends abhor me. Those I loved have turned against me.
19:20  I am skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  “Oh, my friends, pity me, for the angry hand of God has touched me.
19:22  Why must you persecute me as God does? Why aren’t you satisfied with my anguish?
19:23  Oh, that I could write my plea with an iron pen in the rock forever.
19:24  Oh, that I could write my plea with an iron pen in the rock forever.
19:25  “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand upon the earth at last.
19:26  And I know that after this body has decayed, this body shall see God!
19:27  Then he will be on my side! Yes, I shall see him, not as a stranger, but as a friend! What a glorious hope!
19:28  “How dare you go on persecuting me, as though I were proven guilty?
19:29  I warn you, you yourselves are in danger of punishment for your attitude.”