Job Chapter 19

• Job 19:1
  Job.
• Job 19:2
  Then Job answered,
• Job 19:3
  “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
• Job 19:4
  You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
• Job 19:5
  If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
• Job 19:6
  If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
• Job 19:7
  know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
• Job 19:8
  “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
• Job 19:9
  He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
• Job 19:10
  He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
• Job 19:11
  He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
• Job 19:12
  He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
• Job 19:13
  His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
• Job 19:14
  “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
• Job 19:15
  My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
• Job 19:16
  Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
• Job 19:17
  I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
• Job 19:18
  My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
• Job 19:19
  Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
• Job 19:20
  All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
• Job 19:21
  My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
• Job 19:22
  “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
• Job 19:23
  Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
• Job 19:24
  “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
• Job 19:25
  That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
• Job 19:26
  But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
• Job 19:27
  After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
• Job 19:28
  whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
• Job 19:29
  If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
• Job 19:30
  be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”