Parallel Bible results for "job 19:1-16"

Job 19:1-16

1 Why do you keep tormenting me

1 Then Job replied:

2 with words?

2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

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

3 Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.

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

4 If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

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

5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

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

6 then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

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

7 “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

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

8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

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

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

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

10 He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

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

11 His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.

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

12 His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

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

13 “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

14 my relatives and friends are gone.

14 My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

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

15 My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

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

16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.