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Job 19

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."

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."