Job 19:1–12

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD

19 Then Job answered:

2 How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

3 You have humiliated me ten times now,

and you mistreatA me without shame.l

4 Even if it is true that I have sinned,

my mistake concerns onlyB me.

5 If you really want to appear superiorm to me

and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me

and caught me in his net.n

7 I cry out, “Violence!” but get no response;o

I call for help, but there is no justice.

8 He has blockedp my way so that I cannot pass through;

he has veiled my paths with darkness.q

9 He has stripped me of my honor

and removed the crown from my head.

10 He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.C

He uproots my hope like a tree.r

11 His angers burns against me,

and he regards me as one of his enemies.t

12 His troops advance together;

they construct a rampD against me

and campu around my tent.