Job 19

Job 19:1 Then Job answered and said:

Job 19:2 Until when will you torment me and crush me with words?

Job 19:3 You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame.

Job 19:4 Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me.

Job 19:5 If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

Job 19:6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in his net.

Job 19:7 I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8 He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through; he has veiled my paths with darkness.

Job 19:9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

Job 19:10 He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11 His anger burns against me, and he regards me as one of his enemies.

Job 19:12 His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and camp around my tent.

Job 19:13 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Job 19:14 My kin stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15 My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my mouth.

Job 19:17 My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family finds me repulsive.

Job 19:18 Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me.

Job 19:19 All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20 My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21 Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God’s hand has struck me.

Job 19:22 Why do you pursue me as God has? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Job 19:23 I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll.

Job 19:24 or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!

Job 19:25 But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the end he will stand on the dust.

Job 19:26 Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God from my flesh.

Job 19:27 I will see him myself; my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger. My heart longs within me.

Job 19:28 If you are saying, “How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?”

Job 19:29 then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.

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