Book of Job, Chapter 19
Job 19 NASB - New American Standard BibleChapter 19 of Job—New American Standard Bible (NASB)
- ¶ Then Job [a]responded,
- ¶ “How long will you torment [b]me
And crush me with words? - “These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me. - “Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me. - “If indeed you 1vaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me, - Know then that 2God has wronged me
And has closed 3His net around me. - ¶ “Behold, 4I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice. - “He has 5walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put 6darkness on my paths. - “He has 7stripped my honor from me
And removed the 8crown from my head. - “He 9breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my 10hope 11like a tree. - “He has also 12kindled His anger against me
And 13considered me as His enemy. - “His 14troops come together,
And 15build up their [c]way against me
And camp around my tent. - ¶ “He has 16removed my brothers far from me,
And my 17acquaintances are completely estranged from me. - “My relatives have failed,
And my 18intimate friends have forgotten me. - “Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight. - “I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth. - “My breath is [d]offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers. - “Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me. - “All [e]my 19associates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me. - “My 20bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. - “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the 21hand of God has struck me. - “Why do you 22persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh? - ¶ “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were 23inscribed in a book! - “That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever! - “As for me, I know that 24my [f]Redeemer lives,
And [g]at the last He will take His stand on the [h]earth. - “Even after my skin [i]is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall 25see God; - Whom I [j]myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My [k]heart 26faints [l]within me! - “If you say, ‘How shall we 27persecute him?’
And ‘[m]What pretext for a case against him can we find?’ - “Then be afraid of 28the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know 29there is judgment.”
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Lit answered and said
- ^ Lit my soul
- ^ I.e. siegework
- ^ Lit strange
- ^ Lit the men of my council
- ^ Or Vindicator, defender; lit kinsman
- ^ Or as the Last
- ^ Lit dust
- ^ Lit which they have cut off
- ^ Or on my side
- ^ Lit kidneys
- ^ Lit in my loins
- ^ Or the root of the matter is found in him
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 35:26; 38:16; 55:12, 13
- ^ Jb 16:11; 27:2
- ^ Jb 18:8-10; Ps 66:11; La 1:13
- ^ Jb 9:24; 30:20, 24; Hab 1:2
- ^ Jb 3:23; La 3:7, 9
- ^ Jb 30:26
- ^ Jb 12:17, 19; Ps 89:44
- ^ Jb 16:15; Ps 89:39; La 5:16
- ^ Jb 12:14
- ^ Jb 7:6
- ^ Jb 24:20
- ^ Jb 16:9
- ^ Jb 13:24; 33:10
- ^ Jb 16:13
- ^ Jb 30:12
- ^ Jb 16:7; Ps 69:8
- ^ Jb 16:20; Ps 88:8, 18
- ^ Jb 19:19
- ^ Ps 38:11; 55:12, 13
- ^ Jb 16:8; 33:21; Ps 102:5; La 4:8
- ^ Jb 1:11; Ps 38:2
- ^ Jb 13:24, 25; 16:11; 19:6; Ps 69:26
- ^ Is 30:8; Je 36:2
- ^ Jb 16:19; Ps 78:35; Pr 23:11; Is 43:14; Je 50:34
- ^ Ps 17:15; Mt 5:8; 1Co 13:12; 1Jo 3:2
- ^ Ps 73:26
- ^ Jb 19:22
- ^ Jb 15:22
- ^ Jb 22:4; Ps 1:5; 9:7; Ec 12:14
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