Job 19

Job Feels Insulted

1 Then Job ^{▼▼ Lit answered and said}responded, 2 “How long will you torment ^{▼▼ Lit my soul}me
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 ^cvaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
6 Know then that ^dGod has wronged me
And has closed ^eHis net around me.

Everything Is against Him

7 “Behold, ^fI cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
8 “He has ^gwalled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put ^hdarkness on my paths.
9 “He has ⁱstripped my honor from me
And removed the ^jcrown from my head.
10 “He ^kbreaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my ^lhope ^mlike a tree.
11 “He has also ⁿkindled His anger against me
And ^oconsidered me as His enemy.
12 “His ^ptroops come together,
And ^qbuild up their ^{▼▼ I.e. siegework}way against me
And camp around my tent.

13 “He has ^sremoved my brothers far from me,
And my ^tacquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14 “My relatives have failed,
And my ^uintimate 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 ^{▼▼ Lit strange}offensive 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 ^{▼▼ Lit the men of my council}my ^xassociates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.
20 “My ^ybone 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 ^zhand of God has struck me.
22 “Why do you ^aapersecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says, “My Redeemer Lives”

23 “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were ^abinscribed 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 ^acmy ^{▼▼ Or Vindicator, defender; lit kinsman}Redeemer lives,
And ^{▼▼ Or as the Last}at the last He will take His stand on the ^{▼▼ Lit dust}earth.
26 “Even after my skin ^{▼▼ Lit which they have cut off}is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall ^ahsee God;
27 Whom I ^{▼▼ Or on my side}myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My ^{▼▼ Lit kidneys}heart ^akfaints ^{▼▼ Lit in my loins}within me!
28 “If you say, ‘How shall we ^ampersecute him?’
And ‘ ^{▼▼ Or the root of the matter is found in him}What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
29 “Then be afraid of ^aothe sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know ^apthere is judgment.”