Job 19
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Job 19:1-5

11Then Job answered:

2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

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Notes

  1. 1. Job 19:1 Job is completely stunned by Bildad’s speech, and feels totally deserted by God and his friends. Yet from his despair a new hope emerges with a stronger faith. Even though he knows he will die in his innocence, he knows that God will vindicate him and that he will be conscious of the vindication. There are four parts to this reply: Job’s impatience with the speeches of his friends (2-6), God’s abandonment of Job and his attack (7-12), Job’s forsaken state and appeal to his friends (13-22), and Job’s confidence that he will be vindicated (23-29). ↩

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