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Job 19 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Job Feels Insulted

Job 19:1

Then Job responded,

Job 19:2

“How long will you torment [fn]me

And crush me with words?

Job 19:3

“These ten times you have insulted me;

You are not ashamed to wrong me.

Job 19:4

“Even if I have truly done wrong,

My error stays with me.

Job 19:5

“If indeed you exalt yourselves against me

And prove my disgrace to me,

Job 19:6

Know then that God has wronged me

And has surrounded me with His net.

Everything Is Against Him

Job 19:7

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

I shout for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

“He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass,

And He has put darkness on my paths.

Job 19:9

“He has stripped my honor from me

And removed the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;

And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11

“He has also kindled His anger against me

And considered me as His enemy.

Job 19:12

“His troops come together

And build up their [fn]way against me

And camp around my tent.

Job 19:13

“He has removed my brothers far from me,

And my acquaintances have completely turned away from me.

Job 19:14

“My relatives have failed,

And my close friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

“Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger.

I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16

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

I have to implore his favor with my mouth.

Job 19:17

“My breath is offensive to my wife,

And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

Job 19:18

“Even young children despise me;

I stand up and they speak against me.

Job 19:19

“All [fn]my associates loathe me,

And those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20

“My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,

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

Job 19:21

“Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine,

For the hand of God has struck me.

Job 19:22

“Why do you persecute me as God does,

And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says My Redeemer Lives

Job 19:23

“Oh that my words were written!

Oh that they were recorded in a book!

Job 19:24

“That with an iron stylus and lead

They were engraved in the rock forever!

Job 19:25

“Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,

And at the last, He will take His stand on the [fn]earth.

Job 19:26

“Even after my skin [fn]is destroyed,

Yet from my flesh I will see God,

Job 19:27

Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself,

And whom my eyes will see, and not another.

My [fn]heart faints [fn]within me!

Job 19:28

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’

And ‘[fn]What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

Job 19:29

Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves,

For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,

So that you may know there is judgment.”

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit my soul
I.e., siege ramp
Lit the men of my council
Lit dust
Lit which they have cut off
Lit kidneys
Lit in my loins
Or the root of the matter is found in him
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