Home Master Index
←Prev   Job 19 as rendered by/in  Next→ 


19:1  Then Job answered:
19:2  How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
19:3  You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame.
19:4  Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me.
19:5  If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
19:6  then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in his net.
19:7  I cry out, “Violence!” but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice.
19:8  He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; he has veiled my paths with darkness.
19:9  He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
19:10  He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree.
19:11  His anger burns against me, and he regards me as one of his enemies.
19:12  His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and camp around my tent.
19:13  He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
19:14  My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
19:16  I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth.
19:17  My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family finds me repulsive.
19:18  Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me.
19:19  All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
19:20  My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God’s hand has struck me.
19:22  Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
19:23  I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll
19:24  or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!
19:25  But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the end he will stand on the dust.
19:26  Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.
19:27  I will see him myself; my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me.
19:28  If you say, “How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?”
19:29  then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.