Job - Chapter 19 | New International Version

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