Job Chapter 19
1 Job answered:
2 “How long are you going to torment me
and shatter me with a barrage of words?
3 You’ve insulted me ten times over;
aren’t you ashamed of treating me wrong?
4 Even if I did make mistakes,
that’s on me.
5 If you’re acting superior to me
and using my humiliation to argue against me,
6 know that God is the One that’s put me in the wrong
and closed his net around me.
Job 19:1-6
7 “I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I don’t get an answer;
I call for help, but justice doesn’t come.
8 He has blocked my way so I can’t go on;
he’s darkened my path.
9 He has stripped me of my honor
and taken off my crown.
10 He has destroyed me on every side; I’m finished;
he’s uprooted my hope like a tree.
11 He has flashed his anger at me
and considered me his enemy.
12 His troops have come at me in force;
they’ve camped around my tent
and thrown siege works up against me.
Job 19:7-12
13 “He has taken my brothers away from me;
my acquaintances are alienated.
14 My relatives are gone;
my friends have forgotten me.
15 The ones who live in my house
consider me a stranger;
I’m a foreigner to my maids.
16 When I call to my servant, he doesn’t answer me;
I have to beg him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife;
my own brothers detest me.
18 Even kids despise me
and contradict me when I stand up.
19 My associates abhor me;
the ones I love have turned against me.
Job 19:13-19
20 I’m skin and bones;
my skin is sloughing off;
my teeth are coming loose.
21 Show me some mercy, friends;
God’s hand has struck me.
22 Do you have to harass me like he does?
Haven’t you chewed on me enough? Job 19:20-22
23 “Oh that my words were written down,
inscribed in a scroll!
24 Oh that they were engraved permanently on a rock
with an iron chisel and inlaid with lead!
25 I know my Redeemer’s alive,
and in the end he’ll stand on the earth.
26 Even after my skin decays,
without my body I’ll see God.
27 I’ll see him myself;
the thought of that overwhelms me.
28 If you say, ‘Can we find a way to harass him?’
What pretext can we use for a case against him?’
29 fear the sword
because wrath punishes with a sword;
you’ll find out there’s a judgment!”
Job 19:23-29