Job 19

CHAPTER 19

My Redeemer Lives

¹Then Job answered and said,

²“How long will you torment my soul

And crush me with words?

³“These ten times you have dishonored me;

You are not ashamed that you wrong me.

⁴“¹Even if I have truly erred,

My error lodges with me.

⁵“If truly you ^amagnify yourselves against me

And argue my disgrace to me,

⁶Know then that ^aGod has wronged me

And has closed ^bHis net around me.

⁷“Behold, ^aI cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;

I shout for help, but there is no justice.

⁸“He has ^awalled up my way so that I cannot pass,

And He has put ^bdarkness on my paths.

⁹“He has ^astripped my honor from me

And removed the ^bcrown from my head.

¹⁰“He ^abreaks me down on every side, and I am gone;

And He has uprooted my ^bhope ^clike a tree.

¹¹“He has also ^akindled His anger against me

And ^bcounted me as His adversary.

¹²“His ^atroops come together,

And ^bbuild up their ¹way against me

And camp around my tent.

¹³“He has ^aremoved my brothers far from me,

And my ^bacquaintances are completely estranged from me.

¹⁴“My relatives have failed,

And my ^afamiliar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵“Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count me a stranger.

I am a foreigner in their sight.

¹⁶“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;

I have to implore him with my mouth.

¹⁷“My breath is ¹offensive to my wife,

And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

¹⁸“Even young children reject me;

I rise up, and they speak against me.

¹⁹“All the men of my ^acounsel abhor me,

And those I love have turned against me.

²⁰“My ^abone clings to my skin and my flesh,

And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

²¹“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,

For the ^ahand of God has smitten me.

²²“Why do you ^apersecute me as God does,

And are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³“Oh that my words were written!

Oh that they were ^ainscribed in a book!

²⁴“That with an iron stylus and lead

They were engraved in the rock forever!

²⁵“As for me, I know that ^amy ¹Redeemer lives,

And ²at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world.

²⁶“Even after my skin ¹is destroyed,

Yet from my flesh I shall ^abehold God,

²⁷Whom I ¹myself shall behold,

And whom my eyes will see and not another.

My ²heart ^afaints ³within me!

²⁸“If you say, ‘How shall we ^apersecute him?’

‘And the root of the matter is found in ¹him?’

²⁹“Then be afraid of ^athe sword for yourselves,

For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,

So that you may know ^bthere is judgment.”