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Job 19 - New International Version, 2011 bible

Job 19

¹Then Job replied:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁷My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

¹⁸Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.

¹⁹All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.

²⁰I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. [24]

²¹“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

²²Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

²³“Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

²⁴that they were inscribed with an iron tool on [25] lead, or engraved in rock forever!

²⁵I know that my redeemer [26] lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. [27]

²⁶And after my skin has been destroyed, yet [28] in [29] my flesh I will see God;

²⁷I myself will see him with my own eyes — I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

²⁸“If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, [30]’

²⁹you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. [31]”