Job 19

  
  1. Then Job answered and said:
  2. "How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
  3. These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
  4. And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.
  5. If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and plead my disgrace against me,  (Ps. 35:26;   Ps. 38:16;   Ps. 55:12)
  6. Know then that God has wronged me, and has surrounded me with His net  (Job 16:11)
  7. "If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard.  If I cry aloud, there is no justice.  (Job 30:20;   Job 31:35)
  8. He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness in my paths.  (Job 3:23;   Job 33:11)
  9. He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown form my head.  (Ps. 89:44)
  10. He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope He has uprooted like a tree.  (Job 17:14-16)
  11. He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.  (Job 13:24;   Job 33:10)
  12. His troops come together and build up their road against me; they encamp all around my tent.
  13. "He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.  (Job 42:11;   Ps. 31:11;   Ps. 38:11;   Ps. 69:8;   Ps. 88:8;   Ps. 88:18)
  14. My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
  15. Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.  (Job 16:7)
  16. I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
  17. My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am repulsive to the children of my own body.
  18. Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.  (2 Kin. 2:23)
  19. All my close friends abhor me,  (Ps. 38:11;   Ps. 55:12-13)  and those whom I love have turned against me.
  20. My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.  (Job 2:5;   Ps. 102:5)
  21. "Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!
  22. Why do you persecute me as God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?  (Job 16:11;   Ps. 69:26)
  23. "Oh, that my words were written!  Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
  24. That they were engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead, forever!
  25. For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth;  (Titus 2:13-14)
  26. And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God,  (Ps. 17:15)
  27. Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.  How my heart yearns within me!
  28. If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?' - - Since the root of the matter is found in me,
  29. Be afraid of the sword for yourselves; for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgement."
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