Thematic Bible

Job 19:1

JOB REPLIED:

Job 19:2

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

Job 19:3

You have insulted me ten times now. You are not even ashamed of hurting me.

Job 19:4

Even if it were true that I made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.

Job 19:5

If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as an argument against me,

Job 19:6

then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.

Job 19:7

Yes I cry for Help! I am being attacked! But I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

God has blocked my path so that I cannot go on. He has made my path dark.

Job 19:9

He stripped me of my honor. He took the crown off my head.

Job 19:10

He beats me down on every side until I am gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11

He is very angry with me. He considers me his enemy.

Job 19:12

His troops assemble against me. They build a ramp to attack me. They camp around my tent.

Job 19:13

My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me.

Job 19:14

My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My houseguests have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

Job 19:16

I call my slave, but he does not answer, even when I beg him.

Job 19:17

I am repulsive to my wife and my children think I stink.

Job 19:18

Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me.

Job 19:19

All my closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20

My bones cling to my skin. I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth (with almost nothing).

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.

Job 19:22

Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:23

I wish now my words were written. I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.

Job 19:24

I wish they were engraved forever on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.

Job 19:25

I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth.

Job 19:26

Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.

Job 19:27

I will see him with my own eyes, not with someone else's. My heart fails inside me!

Job 19:28

You say: 'We will persecute him!' The root of the problem is found in him.
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Job 19:29

Fear the sword and death, because your anger is punishable by the sword. Then you will know there is a judge.
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