Job 19

Job Feels Insulted

1 Then Job 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 done wrong,
My error stays with me.
5 “If indeed you ^bexalt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
6 Know then that ^cGod has wronged me
And has surrounded me with ^dHis net.

Everything Is Against Him

7 “Behold, ^eI cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
8 “He has ^fblocked my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put ^gdarkness on my paths.
9 “He has ^hstripped my honor from me
And removed the ⁱcrown from my head.
10 “He ^jbreaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my ^khope ^llike a tree.
11 “He has also ^mkindled His anger against me
And ⁿconsidered me as His enemy.
12 “His ^otroops come together
And ^pbuild up their ▼

▼I.e., siege ramp

way against me
And camp around my tent.

13 “He has ^rremoved my brothers far from me,
And my ^sacquaintances have completely turned away from me.
14 “My relatives have failed,
And my ^tclose friends have forgotten me.
15 “Those who live in my house and my servant women 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 his favor with my mouth.
17 “My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
18 “Even young children despise me;
I stand up and they speak against me.
19 “All ▼

▼Lit the men of my council

my ^vassociates loathe me,
And those I love have turned against me.
20 “My ^wbone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21 “Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine,
For the ^xhand of God has struck me.
22 “Why do you ^ypersecute 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 ^zrecorded in a book!
24 “That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
25 “Yet as for me, I know that ^aamy Redeemer lives,
And 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 will ^adsee God,
27 Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself,
And whom my eyes will see, and not another.
My ▼

▼Lit kidneys

heart ^affaints ▼

▼Lit in my loins

within me!
28 “If you say, ‘How shall we ^ahpersecute 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 ^ajthe sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know ^akthere is judgment.”