Job 19 (New American Standard)

Job Feels Insulted

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 ¹vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me, 6 Know then that ²God has wronged me And has closed ³His net around me.

Everything Is against Him

7 "Behold, ⁴I cry, 'Violence !' but I get no answer ; I shout for help, but there is no justice. 8 "He has ⁵walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put ⁶darkness on my paths. 9 "He has ⁷stripped my honor from me And removed the ⁸crown from my head. 10 "He ⁹breaks me down on every side, and I am gone ; And He has uprooted my ¹⁰hope ¹¹like a tree. 11 "He has also ¹²kindled His anger against me And ¹³considered me as His enemy. 12 "His ¹⁴troops come together, And ¹⁵build up their ^cway against me And camp around my tent. 13 "He has ¹⁶removed my brothers far from me, And my ¹⁷acquaintances are completely estranged from me. 14 "My relatives have failed, And my ¹⁸intimate 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 ¹⁹associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. 20 "My ²⁰bone 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 ²¹hand of God has struck me. 22 "Why do you ²²persecute 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 ²³inscribed 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 ²⁴my ^fRedeemer lives, And ^gat the last He will take His stand on the ^hearth. 26 "Even after my skin ⁱis destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall ²⁵see God ; 27 Whom I ^jmyself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My ^kheart ²⁶faints ^lwithin me! 28 "If you say, 'How shall we ²⁷persecute him?' And '^mWhat pretext for a case against him can we find ?' 29 "Then be afraid of ²⁸the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know ²⁹there is judgment."