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Job 19

¹Why do you keep tormenting me with words?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁴my relatives and friends are gone.

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

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

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

¹⁸Children despise me and laugh when they see me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²⁷I 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.

²⁹But 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.