Job 19 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives

Job 19:1

Job 19:1Then Job answered and said:

Job 19:2

Job 19:2“How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?

Job 19:3

Job 19:3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?

Job 19:4

Job 19:4And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.

Job 19:5

Job 19:5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me
and make my disgrace an argument against me,

Job 19:6

Job 19:6know then that God has put me in the wrong
and closed his net about me.

Job 19:7

Job 19:7Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
I call for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

Job 19:8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 19:9

Job 19:9He has stripped from me my glory
and taken the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

Job 19:10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,
and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

Job 19:11

Job 19:11He has kindled his wrath against me
and counts me as his adversary.

Job 19:12

Job 19:12His troops come on together;
they have cast up their siege ramp[fn] against me
and encamp around my tent.

Job 19:13

Job 19:13“He has put my brothers far from me,
and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.

Job 19:14

Job 19:14My relatives have failed me,
my close friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

Job 19:15The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

Job 19:16

Job 19:16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

Job 19:17

Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife,
and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

Job 19:18

Job 19:18Even young children despise me;
when I rise they talk against me.

Job 19:19

Job 19:19All my intimate friends abhor me,
and those whom I loved have turned against me.

Job 19:20

Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

Job 19:21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!

Job 19:22

Job 19:22Why do you, like God, pursue me?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:23

Job 19:23“Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Job 19:24

Job 19:24Oh that with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!

Job 19:25

Job 19:25For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the earth.[fn]

Job 19:26

Job 19:26And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in[fn] my flesh I shall see God,

Job 19:27

Job 19:27whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!

Job 19:28

Job 19:28If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’
and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’[fn]

Job 19:29

Job 19:29be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
that you may know there is a judgment.”

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