Job 19

New American Standard Bible 2020

Job Feels Insulted

1Then Job responded,2“How long will you torment 1me And crush me with words?3These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.4Even if I have truly done wrong, My error stays with me.5If indeed you 2exalt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,6Know then that 3God has wronged me And has surrounded me with 4His net.

Everything Is Against Him

7“Behold, 5I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.8He has 6blocked my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put 7darkness on my paths.9He has 8stripped my honor from me And removed the 9crown from my head.10He 10breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my 11hope 12like a tree.11He has also 13kindled His anger against me And 14considered me as His enemy.12His 15troops come together And 16build up their 17way against me And camp around my tent.

13“He has 18removed my brothers far from me, And my 19acquaintances have completely turned away from me.14My relatives have failed, And my 20close friends have forgotten me.15Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.16I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore his favor with my mouth.17My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.18Even young children despise me; I stand up and they speak against me.19All 21my 22associates loathe me, And those I love have turned against me.20My 23bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.21Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine, For the 24hand of God has struck me.22Why do you 25persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says My Redeemer Lives

23“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were 26recorded in a book!24That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!25Yet as for me, I know that 27my Redeemer lives, And at the last, He will take His stand on the 28earth.26Even after my skin 29is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will 30see God,27Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, And whom my eyes will see, and not another. My 31heart 32faints 33within me!28If you say, ‘How shall we 34persecute him?’ And ‘35What pretext for a case against him can we find?’29Then be afraid of 36the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know 37there is judgment.”

Notes

1. Job 19:2 Lit my soul ↩
2. Job 19:5 Ps 35:26; 38:16; 55:12, 13 ↩
3. Job 19:6 Job 16:11; 27:2 ↩
4. Job 19:6 Job 18:8-10; Ps 66:11; Lam 1:13 ↩
5. Job 19:7 Job 9:24; 30:20, 24; Hab 1:2 ↩
6. Job 19:8 Job 3:23; Lam 3:7, 9 ↩
7. Job 19:8 Job 30:26 ↩
8. Job 19:9 Job 12:17, 19; Ps 89:44 ↩
9. Job 19:9 Job 16:15; Ps 89:39; Lam 5:16 ↩
10. Job 19:10 Job 12:14 ↩
11. Job 19:10 Job 7:6 ↩
12. Job 19:10 Job 24:20 ↩
13. Job 19:11 Job 16:9 ↩
14. Job 19:11 Job 13:24; 33:10 ↩
15. Job 19:12 Job 16:13 ↩
16. Job 19:12 Job 30:12 ↩
17. Job 19:12 I.e., siege ramp ↩
18. Job 19:13 Job 16:7; Ps 69:8 ↩
19. Job 19:13 Job 16:20; Ps 88:8, 18 ↩
20. Job 19:14 Job 19:19 ↩
21. Job 19:19 Lit the men of my council ↩
22. Job 19:19 Ps 38:11; 55:12, 13 ↩
23. Job 19:20 Job 16:8; 33:21; Ps 102:5; Lam 4:8 ↩
24. Job 19:21 Job 1:11; Ps 38:2 ↩
25. Job 19:22 Job 13:24, 25; 16:11; 19:6; Ps 69:26 ↩
26. Job 19:23 Is 30:8; Jer 36:2 ↩
27. Job 19:25 Job 16:19; Ps 78:35; Prov 23:11; Is 43:14; Jer 50:34 ↩
28. Job 19:25 Lit dust ↩
29. Job 19:26 Lit which they have cut off ↩
30. Job 19:26 Ps 17:15; Matt 5:8; 1 Cor 13:12; 1 John 3:2 ↩
31. Job 19:27 Lit kidneys ↩
32. Job 19:27 Ps 73:26 ↩
33. Job 19:27 Lit in my loins ↩
34. Job 19:28 Job 19:22 ↩
35. Job 19:28 Or the root of the matter is found in him ↩
36. Job 19:29 Job 15:22 ↩
37. Job 19:29 Job 22:4; Ps 1:5; 9:7; Eccl 12:14 ↩

Job Feels Insulted

Everything Is Against Him

Job Says My Redeemer Lives

Notes

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