Job 19
19
Job Answers Bildad
1Then Job answered:
2“How long will you hurt me
and crush me with your words?
3You have insulted me ten times now
and attacked me without shame.
4Even if I have sinned,
it is my worry alone.
5If you want to make yourselves look better than I,
you can blame me for my suffering.
6Then know that God has wronged me
and pulled his net around me.
7“I shout, ‘I have been wronged!’
But I get no answer.
I scream for help
but I get no justice.
8God has blocked my way so I cannot pass;
he has covered my paths with darkness.
9He has taken away my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
10He beats me down on every side until I am gone;
he destroys my hope like a fallen tree.
11His anger burns against me,
and he treats me like an enemy.
12His armies gather;
they prepare to attack me.
They camp around my tent.
13“God has made my brothers my enemies,
and my friends have become strangers.
14My relatives have gone away,
and my friends have forgotten me.
15My guests and my female servants treat me like a stranger;
they look at me as if I were a foreigner.
16I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
even when I beg him with my own mouth.
17My wife can’t stand my breath,
and my own family dislikes me.
18Even the little boys hate me
and talk about me when I leave.
19All my close friends hate me;
even those I love have turned against me.
20I am nothing but skin and bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21Pity me, my friends, pity me,
because the hand of God has hit me.
22Why do you chase me as God does?
Haven’t you hurt me enough?
23“How I wish my words were written down,
written on a scroll.
24I wish they were carved with an iron pen into lead,
or carved into stone forever.
25I know that my Defender lives,
and in the end he will stand upon the earth.
26Even after my skin has been destroyed,
in my flesh I will see God.
27I will see him myself;
I will see him with my very own eyes.
How my heart wants that to happen!
28“If you say, ‘We will continue to trouble Job,
because the problem lies with him,’
29you should be afraid of the sword yourselves.
God’s anger will bring punishment by the sword.
Then you will know there is judgment.”
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The Holy Bible, New Century Version, Copyright © 2005 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
