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Job 19

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1 Then Job answered, and said:

2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.

4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.

5 But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

6 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

7 Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.

9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.

11 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.

12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.

13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.

15 They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.

16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.

17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

18 Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.

19 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

20 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

23 Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?

24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone?

25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.

28 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a 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."