Job 19:13-29 - I Am Forgotten

¹³ He has removed my brothers from me;
my acquaintances have abandoned me.
¹⁴ My relatives stop coming by,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.
¹⁶ I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
even if I beg him with my own mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife,
and my own family finds me repulsive.
¹⁸ Even young boys scorn me.
When I stand up, they mock me.
¹⁹ All of my best friends despise me,
and those I love have turned against me.
²⁰ My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for God’s hand has struck me.
²² Why do you persecute me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?

²³ I wish that my words were written down,
that they were recorded on a scroll
²⁴ or were inscribed in stone forever
by an iron stylus and lead!
²⁵ But I know my living Redeemer,
and He will stand on the dust at last.
²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed,
yet I will see God in my flesh.
²⁷ I will see Him myself;
my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.
My heart longs within me.

²⁸ If you say, “How will we pursue him,
since the root of the problem lies with him?”
²⁹ then be afraid of the sword,
because wrath brings punishment by the sword,
so that you may know there is a judgment.