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19:1  Then Job replied:
19:2  ‘How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
19:3  Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.
19:4  If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
19:5  If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
19:6  then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
19:7  ‘Though I cry, “Violence!” I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
19:8  He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
19:9  He has stripped me of my honour and removed the crown from my head.
19:10  He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
19:11  His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
19:12  His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
19:13  ‘He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
19:14  My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
19:15  My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look upon me as a stranger.
19:16  I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
19:17  My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
19:18  Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
19:19  All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
19:20  I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  ‘Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22  Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
19:23  ‘Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
19:24  that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock for ever!
19:25  I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
19:26  And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
19:27  I myself will see him with my own eyes – I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
19:28  ‘If you say, “How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,”
19:29  you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.’