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Job 19 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Job’s Reply to Bildad
Job 19:1

Then Job answered:

Job 19:2

How long will you torment me

and crush me with words?

Job 19:3

You have humiliated me ten times now,

and you mistreat[fn] me without shame.

Job 19:4

Even if it is true that I have sinned,

my mistake concerns only[fn] me.

Job 19:5

If you really want to appear superior to me

and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

Job 19:6

then understand that it is God who has wronged me

and caught me in his net.

Job 19:7

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

I call for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;

he has veiled my paths with darkness.

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my honor

and removed the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.[fn]

He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11

His anger burns against me,

and he regards me as one of his enemies.

Job 19:12

His troops advance together;

they construct a ramp[fn] against me

and camp around my tent.

Job 19:13

He has removed my brothers from me;

my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Job 19:14

My relatives stop coming by,

and my close friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

My house guests[fn] and female servants regard me as a stranger;

I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16

I call for my servant, but he does not answer,

even if I beg him with my own mouth.

Job 19:17

My breath is offensive to my wife,

and my own family[fn] finds me repulsive.

Job 19:18

Even young boys scorn me.

When I stand up, they mock me.

Job 19:19

All of my best friends[fn] despise me,

and those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;

I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,

for God’s hand has struck me.

Job 19:22

Why do you persecute me as God does?

Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Job 19:23

I wish that my words were written down,

that they were recorded on a scroll

Job 19:24

or were inscribed in stone forever

by an iron stylus and lead!

Job 19:25

But I know that my Redeemer lives,[fn]

and at the end he will stand on the dust.

Job 19:26

Even after my skin has been destroyed,[fn]

yet I will see God in[fn] my flesh.

Job 19:27

I will see him myself;

my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger.[fn]

My heart longs[fn] within me.

Job 19:28

If you say, “How will we pursue him,

since the root of the problem lies with him? ”[fn]

Job 19:29

then be afraid of the sword,

because wrath brings punishment by the sword,

so that you may know there is a judgment.

CSB Footnotes
Hb obscure
Lit mistake lives with
Lit gone
Lit they raise up their way
Or The resident aliens in my household
Lit and the sons of my belly
Lit of the men of my council
Or know my living Redeemer
Lit skin which they destroyed, or skin they destroyed in this way
Or apart from
Or not a stranger
Lit My kidneys grow faint
Some Hb mss, LXX, Vg; other Hb mss read me
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