Job 19:13-29 - I Am Forgotten

¹³ "My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; ¹⁴ my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. ¹⁵ Those who live in my house and my maidservants, too! treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner. ¹⁶ "I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. ¹⁷ My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! ¹⁸ Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. ¹⁹ My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. ²⁰ I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."

²¹ "Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me. ²² Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

²³ If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book ²⁴ using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever. ²⁵ "As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. ²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him there won't be anyone else for me! He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

²⁸ "When you're thinking about asking yourselves, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?' ²⁹ Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."