Thematic Bible

Job 19:1

Then Job answered:

Job 19:2

How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?

Job 19:3

You have humiliated me ten times now,
and you mistreat me without shame.

Job 19:4

Even if it is true that I have sinned,
my mistake concerns only me.

Job 19:5

If you really want to appear superior to me
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

Job 19:6

then understand that it is God who has wronged me
and caught me in His net.

Job 19:7

I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response;
I call for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.
He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11

His anger burns against me,
and He regards me as one of His enemies.

Job 19:12

His troops advance together;
they construct a ramp against me
and camp around my tent.

Job 19:13

He has removed my brothers from me;
my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Job 19:14

My relatives stop coming by,
and my close friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16

I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
even if I beg him with my own mouth.

Job 19:17

My breath is offensive to my wife,
and my own family finds me repulsive.

Job 19:18

Even young boys scorn me.
When I stand up, they mock me.

Job 19:19

All of my best friends despise me,
and those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for God’s hand has struck me.

Job 19:22

Why do you persecute me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Job 19:23

I wish that my words were written down,
that they were recorded on a scroll

Job 19:24

or were inscribed in stone forever
by an iron stylus and lead!

Job 19:25

But I know my living Redeemer,
and He will stand on the dust at last.

Job 19:26

Even after my skin has been destroyed,
yet I will see God in my flesh.

Job 19:27

I will see Him myself;
my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.
My heart longs within me.

Job 19:28

If you say, “How will we pursue him,
since the root of the problem lies with him?”
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Job 19:29

then be afraid of the sword,
because wrath brings punishment by the sword,
so that you may know there is a judgment.
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