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Job 19

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Then Iyov answered:

2 "How long will you go on making me angry, crushing me with words?

3 You've insulted me ten times already; aren't you ashamed to treat me so badly?

4 Even if it's true that I made a mistake, my error stays with me.

5 "You may take a superior attitude toward me and cite my disgrace as proof against me;

6 but know that it's God who has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

7 If I cry, 'Violence!' no one hears me; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

8 "He has fenced off my way, so that I can't pass; he has covered my paths with darkness.

9 He has stripped me of my glory and removed the crown from my head.

10 He tears every part of me down - I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

11 "Inflamed with anger against me, he counts me as one of his foes.

12 His troops advance together, they make their way against me and encamp around my tent.

13 "He has made my brothers keep their distance, those who know me are wholly estranged from me,

14 my kinsfolk have failed me, and my close friends have forgotten me.

15 Those living in my house consider me a stranger; my slave-girls too - in their view I'm a foreigner.

16 I call my servant, and he doesn't answer, even if I beg him for a favor!

17 "My wife can't stand my breath, I am loathsome to my own family.

18 Even young children despise me -if I stand up, they start jeering at me.

19 All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.

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

21 "Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!

22 Must you pursue me as God does, never satisfied with my flesh?

23 I wish my words were written down, that they were inscribed in a scroll,

24 that, engraved with iron and filled with lead, they were cut into rock forever!

25 "But I know that my Redeemer lives, that in the end he will rise on the dust;

26 so that after my skin has been thus destroyed, then even without my flesh, I will see God.

27 I will see him for myself, my eyes, not someone else's, will behold him. My heart grows weak inside me!

28 "If you say, 'How will we persecute him?'-the root of the matter is found in me.

29 You had best fear the sword, for anger brings the punishment of the sword, so that you will know there is judgment!"

New Living Translation NLT

1 Then Job spoke again:

2 “How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?

3 You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.

4 Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.

5 You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.

6 But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.

7 “I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.

8 God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.

9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

10 He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.

11 His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.

12 His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.

13 “My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.

14 My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.

15 My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

16 When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him!

17 My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family.

18 Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.

19 My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.

20 I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.

21 “Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.

22 Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?

23 “Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,

24 carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.

25 “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.

26 And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

27 I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!

28 “How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?

29 You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.”