Job 19
New International Version - Job 19 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 19:1 Then Job replied: 19:2 'How long will you torment me and crush me with words? 19:3 Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me. 19:4 If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone. 19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, 19:6 then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me. 19:7 'Though I cry, 'I've been wronged!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. 19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness. 19:9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. 19:10 He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree. 19:11 His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies. 19:12 His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. 19:13 'He has alienated my brothers from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. 19:14 My kinsmen have gone away; my friends have forgotten me. 19:15 My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger; they look upon me as an alien. 19:16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth. 19:17 My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers. 19:18 Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me. 19:19 All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me. 19:20 I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth. 19:21 'Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. 19:22 Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? 19:23 'Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, 19:24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever! 19:25 I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. 19:26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; 19:27 I myself will see him with my own eyes-I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! 19:28 'If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, ' 19:29 you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. '