Job Feels Insulted
19 Then Job responded,
2 “How long will you torment me
And crush me with words?
3 These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
4 Even if I have truly done wrong,
My error stays with me.
5 If indeed you (A)exalt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
6 Know then that (B)God has wronged me
And has surrounded me with (C)His net.
Everything Is Against Him
7 “Behold, (D)I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has (E)blocked my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put (F)darkness on my paths.
9 He has (G)stripped my honor from me
And removed the (H)crown from my head.
10 He (I)breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my (J)hope (K)like a tree.
11 He has also (L)kindled His anger against me
And (M)considered me as His enemy.
12 His (N)troops come together
And (O)build up their way against me
And camp around my tent.
13 “He has (P)removed my brothers far from me,
And my (Q)acquaintances have completely turned away from me.
14 My relatives have failed,
And my (R)close friends have forgotten me.
15 Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore his favor with my mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
18 Even young children despise me;
I stand up and they speak against me.
19 All my (S)associates loathe me,
And those I love have turned against me.
20 My (T)bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine,
For the (U)hand of God has struck me.
22 Why do you (V)persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job Says My Redeemer Lives
23 “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were (W)recorded in a book!
24 That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
25 Yet as for me, I know that (X)my Redeemer lives,
And at the last, He will take His stand on the earth.
26 Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I will (Y)see God,
27 Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself,
And whom my eyes will see, and not another.
My heart (Z)faints within me!
28 If you say, ‘How shall we (AA)persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
29 Then be afraid of (AB)the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know (AC)there is judgment.”
Footnotes
- Job 19:2
- Job 19:12
- Job 19:19
- Job 19:25
- Job 19:26
- Job 19:27
- Job 19:27
- Job 19:28
Cross references
- Job 19:5 : Ps 35:26; 38:16; 55:12, 13
- Job 19:6 : Job 16:11; 27:2
- Job 19:6 : Job 18:8-10; Ps 66:11; Lam 1:13
- Job 19:7 : Job 9:24; 30:20, 24; Hab 1:2
- Job 19:8 : Job 3:23; Lam 3:7, 9
- Job 19:8 : Job 30:26
- Job 19:9 : Job 12:17, 19; Ps 89:44
- Job 19:9 : Job 16:15; Ps 89:39; Lam 5:16
- Job 19:10 : Job 12:14
- Job 19:10 : Job 7:6
- Job 19:10 : Job 24:20
- Job 19:11 : Job 16:9
- Job 19:11 : Job 13:24; 33:10
- Job 19:12 : Job 16:13
- Job 19:12 : Job 30:12
- Job 19:13 : Job 16:7; Ps 69:8
- Job 19:13 : Job 16:20; Ps 88:8, 18
- Job 19:14 : Job 19:19
- Job 19:19 : Ps 38:11; 55:12, 13
- Job 19:20 : Job 16:8; 33:21; Ps 102:5; Lam 4:8
- Job 19:21 : Job 1:11; Ps 38:2
- Job 19:22 : Job 13:24, 25; 16:11; 19:6; Ps 69:26
- Job 19:23 : Is 30:8; Jer 36:2
- Job 19:25 : Job 16:19; Ps 78:35; Prov 23:11; Is 43:14; Jer 50:34
- Job 19:26 : Ps 17:15; Matt 5:8; 1 Cor 13:12; 1 John 3:2
- Job 19:27 : Ps 73:26
- Job 19:28 : Job 19:22
- Job 19:29 : Job 15:22
- Job 19:29 : Job 22:4; Ps 1:5; 9:7; Eccl 12:14
