Thematic Bible

Job 19:1

Then Job responded,

Job 19:2

“How long will you torment me
And crush me with words?

Job 19:3

“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.

Job 19:4

“Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.

Job 19:5

“If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,

Job 19:6

Know then that God has wronged me
And has closed His net around me.

Job 19:7

“Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.

Job 19:9

“He has stripped my honor from me
And removed the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11

“He has also kindled His anger against me
And considered me as His enemy.

Job 19:12

“His troops come together,
And build up their way against me
And camp around my tent.

Job 19:13

“He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Job 19:14

“My relatives have failed,
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

“Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16

“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth.

Job 19:17

“My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

Job 19:18

“Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me.

Job 19:19

“All my associates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20

“My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me.

Job 19:22

“Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:23

“Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Job 19:24

“That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!

Job 19:25

“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

Job 19:26

“Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

Job 19:27

Whom I myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My heart faints within me!

Job 19:28

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
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Job 19:29

“Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”
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