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Job 19 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:1 - And Job made answer and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:2 - How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:3 - Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:4 - And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:5 - If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:6 - Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

Everything Is against Him

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:7 - Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 - My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:9 - He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10 - I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:11 - His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:12 - His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13 - He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:14 - My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:16 - At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 - My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:18 - Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:19 - All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20 - My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 - Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:22 - Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:23 - If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:24 - And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:25 - But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:26 - And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:27 - Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:28 - If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:29 - Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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