Job 19:13-22

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.[a]
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?

Cross References 17

  • 1. Psalms 69:8
  • 2. ver 19; Job 16:7; Job 42:11; Psalms 31:11; Psalms 38:11; Psalms 88:8
  • 3. ver 19; S 2 Samuel 15:12; Job 12:4; Job 16:20; Psalms 88:18; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 38:22
  • 4. Genesis 14:14
  • 5. Ecclesiastes 2:7
  • 6. Psalms 38:5
  • 7. S 2 Kings 2:23
  • 8. S Job 16:10
  • 9. S ver 14; S Job 6:14; Psalms 55:12-13
  • 10. Job 30:10; Psalms 38:11
  • 11. S ver 13; John 13:18
  • 12. S Job 2:5; Job 33:21; Psalms 102:5
  • 13. S Job 6:14
  • 14. S Judges 2:15; S Job 4:5; S Job 10:3; Lamentations 3:1
  • 15. S Job 13:25; Job 16:11
  • 16. ver 6
  • 17. S 2 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 14:4; Psalms 27:2; Psalms 69:26; Proverbs 30:14; Isaiah 53:4

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