Job 19:13-29 - I Am Forgotten

¹³ "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. ¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. ²⁰ My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

²¹ "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. ²² Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ "Oh that my words were now written. Oh that they were inscribed in a book. ²⁴ That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever. ²⁵ But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. ²⁶ After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, ²⁷ Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

²⁸ If you say, 'How we will persecute him.' because the root of the matter is found in me, ²⁹ be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."