Thematic Bible

Job 19:1

Then Job answered and said,

Job 19:2

"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?

Job 19:3

These ten times you have disgraced me; you are not ashamed [that] you have attacked me.

Job 19:4

And what is more, [if] I have truly erred, my error remains with me.

Job 19:5

If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me,

Job 19:6

know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me [with] his net.

Job 19:7

"Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, 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 taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head.

Job 19:10

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

Job 19:11

and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.

Job 19:12

His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.

Job 19:13

"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.

Job 19:14

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

Job 19:15

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

Job 19:16

I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must {personally} plead with him.

Job 19:17

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to {my own family}.

Job 19:18

Little boys also despise me; [when] I rise, then they talk against me.

Job 19:19

All {my intimate friends} abhor me, and these [whom] I have loved have turned against me.

Job 19:20

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

Job 19:21

"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

Job 19:22

Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:23

"{O that} my words could be written down! {O that they could be inscribed in a scroll}!

Job 19:24

[That] with a pen of iron and [with] lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!

Job 19:25

But I myself know [that] my redeemer [is] alive, and [at the] last he will stand up upon {the earth}.

Job 19:26

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

Job 19:27

whom {I will see for myself}, and [whom] my eyes will see and not a stranger. {My heart faints within me}.

Job 19:28

"If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,
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Job 19:29

be afraid for yourselves {because of the sword}, for wrath [brings] punishment by [the] sword, so that you may know that [there is] judgment."
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