Job 19

1 Then Job answered,

2 “How long will you torment me, ‡ 2Pe 2:7-8Jas 3:6-8Jdg 16:16Job 18:2Job 27:2Job 8:2Pro 12:18Pro 18:21 +7

and crush me with words?

3 You have reproached me ten times. ‡ Gen 31:7Dan 1:20Job 15:11-12Job 15:4-6Job 18:4-21Job 19:17Neh 4:12Psa 69:8 +8

You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

4 If it is true that I have erred, ‡ 2Co 5:10Ezk 18:4Pro 9:122Sa 24:17Gal 6:5Job 11:3-6

my error remains with myself.

5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, ‡ Psa 35:26Psa 38:16Psa 55:121Sa 1:6Isa 4:1Jhn 9:2Jhn 9:34Luk 1:25 +6

and plead against me my reproach,

6 know now that God has subverted me, ‡ Job 18:8-10Job 16:11-14Job 27:2Job 7:20Ezk 12:13Ezk 32:3Hos 7:12Lam 1:12-13 +2

and has surrounded me with his net.

7 “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. ‡ Hab 1:2-3Lam 3:8Job 21:27Job 23:3-7Job 30:20Job 31:35-36Job 34:5Job 40:8 +9

I cry for help, but there is no justice.

8 He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, ‡ Job 3:23Lam 3:7Lam 3:9Pro 4:19Psa 88:8Hos 2:6Isa 50:10Jer 13:16 +4

and has set darkness in my paths.

9 He has stripped me of my glory, ‡ Psa 89:44Job 29:7-14Job 12:17Job 30:1Lam 5:16Psa 89:39Hos 9:11Isa 61:6 +2

and taken the crown from my head.

10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. ‡ Job 24:20Psa 37:35-362Co 4:8-9Job 12:14Job 1:13-19Job 17:11Job 17:15Job 2:7 +6

He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. ‡ Job 13:24Job 16:9Job 33:10Deu 32:22Lam 2:5Psa 89:46Psa 90:7

He counts me among his adversaries.

12 His troops come on together, ‡ Job 30:12Job 16:13Job 16:11Isa 10:5-6Isa 51:23

build a siege ramp against me,

and encamp around my tent.

13 “He has put my brothers far from me. ‡ Psa 88:8Psa 69:8Psa 88:18Psa 31:11Psa 69:202Ti 4:16Job 16:7Job 6:21-23 +2

My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

14 My relatives have gone away. ‡ Psa 38:112Sa 16:23Jer 20:10Jhn 13:18Mat 10:21Mic 7:5-6Pro 18:24Psa 55:12-14

My familiar friends have forgotten me.

15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. ‡ Job 31:31-32Psa 123:3

I am an alien in their sight.

16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. ‡ Job 1:15-17Job 1:19

I beg him with my mouth.

17 My breath is offensive to my wife. ‡ Job 2:9-10Job 17:1

I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

18 Even young children despise me. ‡ 2Ki 2:23Job 30:1Job 30:12Isa 3:5

If I arise, they speak against me.

19 All my familiar friends abhor me. ‡ Psa 41:9Psa 109:4-5Psa 55:12-14Job 6:14-15Luk 22:48Psa 38:11Psa 55:20

They whom I loved have turned against me.

20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. ‡ Psa 102:5Lam 4:8Job 33:19-22Job 2:4-6Job 30:30Job 7:5Lam 3:4Lam 5:10 +4

I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21 “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, ‡ Job 1:11Psa 38:21Co 12:26Heb 13:3Job 2:10Job 2:5Job 6:14Job 6:4 +1

for the hand of God has touched me.

22 Why do you persecute me as God, ‡ Psa 69:26Isa 51:23Job 10:16Job 13:25Job 16:11Job 2:5Job 31:31Mic 3:3 +1

and are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 “Oh that my words were now written! ‡ Isa 30:8Isa 8:1Job 31:35

Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

24 That with an iron pen and lead ‡ Jer 17:1Deu 27:2-3Deu 27:8Exo 28:11-12Exo 28:21Exo 32:16

they were engraved in the rock forever!

25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. ‡ Eph 1:7Isa 54:5Psa 78:35Pro 23:11Psa 19:14Jhn 5:22-29Isa 59:20-21Jer 50:34 +6

In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

26 After my skin is destroyed, ‡ Mat 5:81Jn 3:2Psa 17:151Co 13:12Rev 1:7Psa 16:111Co 15:53Php 3:21 +1

then I will see God in my flesh,

27 whom I, even I, will see on my side. ‡ Psa 73:26Isa 26:19Num 24:17

My eyes will see, and not as a stranger.

“My heart is consumed within me.

28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ ‡ Job 19:221Ki 14:13Psa 69:26

because the root of the matter is found in me,

29 be afraid of the sword, ‡ Ecc 11:9Ecc 12:14Job 13:7-11Job 15:22Job 22:4Mat 7:1-2Psa 1:5Psa 58:10-11 +3

for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,

that you may know there is a judgment.”