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Why do you keep tormenting me with words? |
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Time after time you insult me and show no shame for the way you abuse me. |
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Even if I have done wrong, how does that hurt you? |
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You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt. |
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Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me. |
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I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice. |
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God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness. |
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He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation. |
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He batters me from every side. He uproots my hope and leaves me to wither and die. |
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God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy. |
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He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent. |
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God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me; |
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my relatives and friends are gone. |
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Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner. |
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When I call a servant, he doesn't answer--- even when I beg him to help me. |
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My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me. |
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Children despise me and laugh when they see me. |
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My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me. |
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My skin hangs loose on my bones; I have barely escaped with my life. |
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You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down. |
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Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough? |
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How I wish that someone would remember my words and record them in a book! |
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Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever. |
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But I know there is someone in heaven who will come at last to my defense. |
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Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God. |
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I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger. My courage failed because you said, |
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"How can we torment him?" You looked for some excuse to attack me. |
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But now, be afraid of the sword--- the sword that brings God's wrath on sin, so that you will know there is one who judges. |
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