| 19 | Job | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Then Job answered: | Job. Jb.19.1-29 | ||
| "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words? | |||
| These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? | |||
| And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. | |||
| If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me, | |||
| know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me. | |||
| Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice. | |||
| He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. | |||
| He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | |||
| He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. | |||
| He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary. | |||
| His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent. | |||
| "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. | |||
| My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me; | |||
| the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes. | |||
| I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth. | |||
| I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother. | |||
| Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. | |||
| All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. | |||
| My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | |||
| Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! | |||
| Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? | |||
| "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | |||
| Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! | |||
| For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth; | |||
| and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God, | |||
| whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! | |||
| If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him'; | |||
| be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment." | |||
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