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Job 19

Good News Translation GNT

1 Why do you keep tormenting me

2 with words?

3 Time after time you insult me and show no shame for the way you abuse me.

4 Even if I have done wrong, how does that hurt you?

5 You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.

6 Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me.

7 I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice.

8 God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness.

9 He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation.

10 He batters me from every side. He uproots my hope and leaves me to wither and die.

11 God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy.

12 He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent.

13 God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;

14 my relatives and friends are gone.

15 Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.

16 When I call a servant, he doesn't answer - even when I beg him to help me.

17 My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.

18 Children despise me and laugh when they see me.

19 My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.

20 My skin hangs loose on my bones; I have barely escaped with my life.

21 You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.

22 Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?

23 How I wish that someone would remember my words and record them in a book!

24 Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.

25 But I know there is someone in heaven who will come at last to my defense.

26 Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.

27 I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger. My courage failed because you said,

28 "How can we torment him?" You looked for some excuse to attack me.

29 But now, be afraid of the sword - the sword that brings God's wrath on sin, so that you will know there is one who judges.

World English Bible WEB

1 Then Job answered,

2 "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?

3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

4 If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.

5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

6 Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

9 He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

12 His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.

13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.

17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

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

21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

22 Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

24 That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

26 After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,

27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me,

29 Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."