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Job 19 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job 19:1Then Iyov answered,
Job 19:2"How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?
Job 19:3You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
Job 19:4If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.
Job 19:5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
Job 19:6Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

Everything Is against Him

Job 19:7"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
Job 19:9He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
Job 19:10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
Job 19:12His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.
Job 19:13"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Job 19:14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
Job 19:17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
Job 19:18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

Job 19:23"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Job 19:24That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the eretz.
Job 19:26After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,
Job 19:27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
Job 19:28If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me,
Job 19:29Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."
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