Thematic Bible

Job 19:1

Then Job answered and said:

Job 19:2

"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?

Job 19:3

These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?

Job 19:4

And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

Job 19:5

If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,

Job 19:6

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.

Job 19:7

Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 19:9

He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

Job 19:11

He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.

Job 19:12

His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

Job 19:13

"He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.

Job 19:14

My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

Job 19:16

I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

Job 19:18

Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.

Job 19:19

All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.

Job 19:20

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Job 19:22

Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you 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

Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

Job 19:25

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

Job 19:26

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 19:27

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

Job 19:28

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

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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