Job, Chapter 19: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTRE

Job, Chapter 19

¹ Then Job^aresponded,
² “How long will you torment^bme
And crush me with words?
³ “These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
⁴ “Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.
⁵ “If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
⁶ Know then that God has wronged me
And has closed His net around me.
⁷ “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
⁸ “He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.
⁹ “He has stripped my honor from me
And removed the crown from my head.
¹⁰ “He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
¹¹ “He has also kindled His anger against me
And considered me as His enemy.
¹² “His troops come together,
And build up their^cway against me
And camp around my tent.
¹³ “He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
¹⁴ “My relatives have failed,
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵ “Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.
¹⁶ “I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth.
¹⁷ “My breath is^doffensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
¹⁸ “Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me.
¹⁹ “All^emy associates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.
²⁰ “My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
²¹ “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me.
²² “Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
²³ “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
²⁴ “That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
²⁵ “As for me, I know that my^fRedeemer lives,
And^gat the last He will take His stand on the^hearth.
²⁶ “Even after my skinⁱis destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
²⁷ Whom I^jmyself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My^kheart faints^lwithin me!
²⁸ “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘^mWhat pretext for a case against him can we find?’
²⁹ “Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”


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