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How long will you vex and torment me and break me in pieces with words? |
3
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These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange [harden yourselves against me and deal severely with me]. |
4
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And if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me [I would be conscious of it]. |
5
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If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach and humiliation, |
6
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Know that God has overthrown and put me in the wrong and has closed His net about me. |
7
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Behold, I cry out, Violence! but I am not heard; I cry aloud for help, but there is no justice. |
8
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He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths. |
9
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He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. |
10
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He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree. |
11
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He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries. |
12
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His troops come together and cast up their way and siege works against me and encamp round about my tent. |
13
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He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. |
14
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My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
15
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Those who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. |
16
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I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words. |
17
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I am repulsive to my wife and loathsome to the children of my own mother. |
18
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Even young children despise me; when I get up, they speak against me. |
19
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All the men of my council and my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I loved are turned against me. |
20
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My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin or gums of my teeth. |
21
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Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! |
22
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Why do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh? |
23
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Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book [carved on a tablet of stone]! |
24
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That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever! |
25
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For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth. [Isa. 44:6; 48:12.] |
26
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And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh or without it I shall see God, |
27
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Whom I, even I, shall see for myself and on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away and is consumed within me. |
28
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If you say, How we will pursue him! [and continue to persecute me with the claim] that the root [cause] of all these [afflictions] is found in me, |
29
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Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance], for wrathful are the punishments of that sword, that you may know there is a judgment. |
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