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"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words? |
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These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? |
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And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me. |
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If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me, |
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know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me. |
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Even when I cry out, 'Violence!' I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice. |
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He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. |
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He has stripped my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. |
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He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, he has uprooted my hope like a tree. |
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He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary. |
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His troops come on together; they have thrown up siegeworks against me, and encamp around my tent. |
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"He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. |
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My relatives and my close friends have failed me; |
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the guests in my house have forgotten me; my serving girls count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes. |
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I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must myself plead with him. |
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My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. |
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Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me. |
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. |
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My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
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Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! |
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Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh? |
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"O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book! |
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O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever! |
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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; |
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and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God, |
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whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! |
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If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him'; |
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be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment." |
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