Job - Chapter 19 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Why do you keep tormenting me with words?
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 19:1)}
  • 3. Time after time you insult me and show no shame for the way you abuse me.
  • 4. Even if I have done wrong, how does that hurt you?
  • 5. You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.
  • 6. Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me.
  • 7. I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice.
  • 8. God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness.
  • 9. He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation.
  • 10. He batters me from every side. He uproots my hope and leaves me to wither and die.
  • 11. God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy.
  • 12. He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent.
  • 13. God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;
  • 14. my relatives and friends are gone.
  • 15. Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.
  • 16. When I call a servant, he doesn't answer--- even when I beg him to help me.
  • 17. My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.
  • 18. Children despise me and laugh when they see me.
  • 19. My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.
  • 20. My skin hangs loose on my bones; I have barely escaped with my life.
  • 21. You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.
  • 22. Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?
  • 23. How I wish that someone would remember my words and record them in a book!
  • 24. Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.
  • 25. But I know there is someone in heaven who will come at last to my defense.
  • 26. Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.
  • 27. I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger. My courage failed because you said,
  • 28. "How can we torment him?" You looked for some excuse to attack me.
  • 29. But now, be afraid of the sword--- the sword that brings God's wrath on sin, so that you will know there is one who judges.
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