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Job 19

Common English Bible CEB

1 Then Job responded:

2 How long will you harass me and crush me with words?

3 These ten times you've humiliated me; shamelessly you insult me.

4 Have I really gone astray? If so, my error remains hidden inside me.

5 If you look down on me and use my disgrace to criticize me,

6 know then that God has wronged me and enclosed his net over me.

7 If I cry "Violence!" I'm not answered; I shout—but there is no justice.

8 He walled up my path so I can't pass and put darkness on my trail,

9 stripped my honor from me, removed the crown from my head,

10 tore me down completely so that I'll die, and uprooted my hope like a tree.

11 His anger burns against me; he considers me his enemy.

12 His troops come as one and construct their siege ramp against me; they camp around my tent.

13 He has distanced my family from me; my acquaintances are also alienated from me. those who know me have forgotten me. I'm a foreigner in their sight.

14 My visitors have ceased;

15 My guests and female servants think me a stranger;

16 I call my servant, and he doesn't answer; I myself must beg him.

17 My breath stinks to my wife; I am odious to my children.

18 Even the young despise me; I get up, and they rail against me.

19 All my closest friends despise me; the ones I have loved turn against me.

20 My bones cling to my skin and flesh; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21 Pity me. Pity me. You're my friends. God's hand has truly struck me.

22 Why do you pursue me like God does, always hungry for my flesh?

23 Oh, that my words were written down, inscribed on a scroll

24 with an iron instrument and lead, forever engraved on stone.

25 But I know that my redeemer is alive and afterward he'll rise upon the dust.

26 After my skin has been torn apart this way— then from my flesh I'll see God,

27 whom I'll see myself— my eyes see, and not a stranger's. I am utterly dejected.

28 You say, "How will we pursue him so that the root of the matter can be found in him?"

29 You ought to fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings punishment by the sword. You should know that there is judgment.

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."