Thematic Bible

Job 19:1

In response, Job said:

Job 19:2

"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

Job 19:3

Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!

Job 19:4

Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

Job 19:5

If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

Job 19:6

then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."

Job 19:7

"Although I cried out "Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.

Job 19:8

He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

Job 19:9

"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!

Job 19:10

He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

Job 19:11

His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.

Job 19:12

His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."

Job 19:13

"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;

Job 19:14

my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

Job 19:15

Those who live in my house and my maidservants, too! treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

Job 19:16

"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly.

Job 19:17

My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

Job 19:18

Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.

Job 19:19

My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20

I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."

Job 19:21

"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.

Job 19:22

Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

Job 19:23

If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book

Job 19:24

using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.

Job 19:25

"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.

Job 19:26

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

Job 19:27

whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him there won't be anyone else for me! He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

Job 19:28

"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'
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Job 19:29

Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."
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