Thematic Bible
Job 19:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said:
Job 19:2 (show verse)
"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
Job 19:3 (show verse)
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
Job 19:4 (show verse)
And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job 19:5 (show verse)
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
Job 19:6 (show verse)
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
Job 19:7 (show verse)
Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:8 (show verse)
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
Job 19:9 (show verse)
He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.
Job 19:10 (show verse)
He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
Job 19:11 (show verse)
He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
Job 19:12 (show verse)
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
Job 19:13 (show verse)
"He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
Job 19:14 (show verse)
My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15 (show verse)
The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
Job 19:16 (show verse)
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
Job 19:17 (show verse)
My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
Job 19:18 (show verse)
Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
Job 19:19 (show verse)
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
Job 19:20 (show verse)
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21 (show verse)
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Job 19:22 (show verse)
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:23 (show verse)
"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Job 19:24 (show verse)
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
Job 19:25 (show verse)
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
Job 19:26 (show verse)
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
Job 19:27 (show verse)
whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
Job 19:28 (show verse)
If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him,'
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Job 19:29 (show verse)
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."
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