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Job 19

The Message Bible MSG

1 Job answered:

2 "How long are you going to keep battering away at me, pounding me with these harangues?

3 Time after time after time you jump all over me. Do you have no conscience, abusing me like this?

4 Even if I have, somehow or other, gotten off the track, what business is that of yours?

5 Why do you insist on putting me down, using my troubles as a stick to beat me?

6 Tell it to God - he's the one behind all this, he's the one who dragged me into this mess.

7 "Look at me - I shout 'Murder!' and I'm ignored; I call for help and no one bothers to stop.

8 God threw a barricade across my path - I'm stymied; he turned out all the lights - I'm stuck in the dark.

9 He destroyed my reputation, robbed me of all self-respect.

10 He tore me apart piece by piece - I'm ruined! Then he yanked out hope by the roots.

11 He's angry with me - oh, how he's angry! He treats me like his worst enemy.

12 He has launched a major campaign against me, using every weapon he can think of, coming at me from all sides at once. I Know That God Lives

13 "God alienated my family from me;

14 everyone who knows me avoids me. My relatives and friends have all left; houseguests forget I ever existed.

15 The servant girls treat me like a bum off the street, look at me like they've never seen me before.

16 I call my attendant and he ignores me, ignores me even though I plead with him.

17 My wife can't stand to be around me anymore. I'm repulsive to my family.

18 Even street urchins despise me; when I come out, they taunt and jeer.

19 Everyone I've ever been close to abhors me; my dearest loved ones reject me.

20 I'm nothing but a bag of bones; my life hangs by a thread.

21 "Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me. God has come down hard on me!

22 Do you have to be hard on me too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?

23 "If only my words were written in a book -

24 better yet, chiseled in stone!

25 Still, I know that God lives - the One who gives me back my life - and eventually he'll take his stand on earth.

26 And I'll see him - even though I get skinned alive! -

27 see God myself, with my very own eyes. Oh, how I long for that day!

28 "If you're thinking, 'How can we get through to him, get him to see that his trouble is all his own fault?'

29 Forget it. Start worrying about yourselves. Worry about your own sins and God's coming judgment, for judgment is most certainly on the way."

New International Version NIV

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, ‘Violence!’ 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 family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

14 My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

15 My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

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 family.

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 only by 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 on 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. ”