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


19:1  Job said:
19:2  How long will you torture me with your words?
19:3  Isn't ten times enough for you to accuse me? Aren't you ashamed?
19:4  Even if I have sinned, you haven't been harmed.
19:5  You boast of your goodness, claiming I am suffering because I am guilty.
19:6  But God is the one at fault for finding fault with me.
19:7  Though I pray to be rescued from this torment, no whisper of justice answers me.
19:8  God has me trapped with a wall of darkness
19:9  and stripped of respect.
19:10  God rips me apart, uproots my hopes,
19:11  and attacks with fierce anger, as though I were his enemy.
19:12  His entire army advances, then surrounds my tent. *
19:13  God has turned relatives and friends against me,
19:14  and I am forgotten.
19:15  My guests and my servants consider me a stranger,
19:16  and when I call my servants, they pay no attention.
19:17  My breath disgusts my wife; everyone in my family turns away.
19:18  Young children can't stand me, and when I come near, they make fun.
19:19  My best friends and loved ones have turned from me.
19:20  I am skin and bones— just barely alive.
19:21  My friends, I beg you for pity! God has made me his target.
19:22  Hasn't he already done enough? Why do you join the attack?
19:23  I wish that my words could be written down
19:24  or chiseled into rock.
19:25  I know that my Protector lives, and at the end he will stand on this earth.
19:26  My flesh may be destroyed, yet from this body I will see God.
19:27  Yes, I will see him for myself, and I long for that moment.
19:28  My friends, you think up ways to blame and torment me, saying I brought it on myself.
19:29  But watch out for the judgment, when God will punish you!