Job 19

Job

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.[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?
23 “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool on[b] lead, or engraved in rock forever!
25 I know that my redeemer[c] lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[d]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet[e] in[f] 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,[g]
29 you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.[h]

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Cross References 53

  • 1. Job 13:25
  • 2. Job 6:9
  • 3. S Genesis 31:7
  • 4. Job 20:3
  • 5. Job 6:24
  • 6. Psalms 35:26; Psalms 38:16; Psalms 55:12
  • 7. S Job 6:29; Job 27:2
  • 8. S Job 18:8
  • 9. S Job 10:3
  • 10. Job 30:20; Psalms 22:2
  • 11. Job 30:24,28; Job 31:35; Psalms 5:2
  • 12. S Job 9:24; Habakkuk 1:2-4
  • 13. Job 3:23; Lamentations 3:7; Hosea 2:6
  • 14. Job 3:26; Job 23:17; Job 30:26; Ecclesiastes 6:4; Isaiah 59:9; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 14:19; Lamentations 3:2
  • 15. S Job 12:17
  • 16. Genesis 43:28; Exodus 12:42; Psalms 15:4; Psalms 50:23; Proverbs 14:31
  • 17. S Job 2:8; Job 29:14; Psalms 89:39,44; Lamentations 5:16
  • 18. S Job 12:14
  • 19. S Job 7:6
  • 20. S Job 14:7; Job 24:20
  • 21. Job 16:9
  • 22. S Job 13:24
  • 23. S Job 16:13
  • 24. S Job 16:10; Job 30:12
  • 25. S Job 3:23
  • 26. Psalms 69:8
  • 27. ver 19; Job 16:7; Job 42:11; Psalms 31:11; Psalms 38:11; Psalms 88:8
  • 28. ver 19; S 2 Samuel 15:12; Job 12:4; Job 16:20; Psalms 88:18; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 38:22
  • 29. Genesis 14:14
  • 30. Ecclesiastes 2:7
  • 31. Psalms 38:5
  • 32. S 2 Kings 2:23
  • 33. S Job 16:10
  • 34. S ver 14; S Job 6:14; Psalms 55:12-13
  • 35. Job 30:10; Psalms 38:11
  • 36. S ver 13; John 13:18
  • 37. S Job 2:5; Job 33:21; Psalms 102:5
  • 38. S Job 6:14
  • 39. S Judges 2:15; S Job 4:5; S Job 10:3; Lamentations 3:1
  • 40. S Job 13:25; Job 16:11
  • 41. ver 6
  • 42. S 2 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 14:4; Psalms 27:2; Psalms 69:26; Proverbs 30:14; Isaiah 53:4
  • 43. S Exodus 17:14; S Psalms 40:7; S Isaiah 8:1; Isaiah 30:8
  • 44. Jeremiah 17:1
  • 45. S Job 16:18
  • 46. S Exodus 6:6; S Leviticus 25:25; Psalms 68:5; Psalms 78:35; Proverbs 23:11; Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 43:14; Isaiah 44:6,24; Isaiah 47:4; Isaiah 48:17; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 59:20; Isaiah 60:16; Jeremiah 50:34
  • 47. S 1 Samuel 14:39; Job 16:19
  • 48. S Numbers 12:8; Psalms 17:15; S Matthew 5:8; 1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 John 3:2
  • 49. Luke 2:30
  • 50. Psalms 42:1; Psalms 63:1; Psalms 84:2; Psalms 73:26
  • 51. S Job 13:25
  • 52. Job 15:22
  • 53. Job 22:4; Job 27:13-23; Psalms 1:5; Psalms 9:7; Psalms 58:11; Ecclesiastes 3:17; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 12:14

Footnotes 8

  • [a]. Or "only by my gums"
  • [b]. Or "and"
  • [c]. Or "vindicator"
  • [d]. Or "on my grave"
  • [e]. Or "And after I awake," / "though this body has been destroyed," / "then"
  • [f]. Or "destroyed," / "apart from"
  • [g]. Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts "me"
  • [h]. Or "sword," / "that you may come to know the Almighty"

Job 19 Commentaries

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