Job 19

Job Chapter 19 ESV

1Job, complaining of the repeated cruelty of his friends, sheweth that he hath misery enough to gratify it: 21he calleth for pity; 23professeth his belief of a future resurrection; 28and warneth his friends not to persecute him.
1 Then Job answered and said:
2 “How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
3 These 1ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4 And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5 If indeed you 1magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
6 know then that God has 1put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
7 Behold, I 1cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has 1walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 He has 1stripped from me my glory and taken the 2crown from my head.
10 He breaks me down on every side, and I 1am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11 He has kindled his wrath against me and 1counts me as his adversary.
12 His 1troops come on together; they have 2cast up their siege rampa against me and encamp around my tent.
13 “He has put my 1brothers far from me, and 2those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives 1have failed me, my close 2friends have forgotten me.
15 The guests 1in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
17 My breath is strange to my 1wife, and I am a stench to the children of 2my own mother.
18 Even young 1children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
19 All my 1intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 My 1bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has 1touched me!
22 Why do you, like God, 1pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were 1inscribed in a book!
24 Oh that with an iron 1pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25 For I 1know that my 2Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the 3earth.a
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet ina my flesh I shall 1see God,
27 whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not 1another. My heart 2faints within me!
28 If you say, ‘How we will 1pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’a
29 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is 1a judgment.”
Job 19

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