Job 19 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job

Job 19:1

Job 19:1Then Job replied:

Job 19:2

Job 19:2“How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

Job 19:3

Job 19:3Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.

Job 19:4

Job 19:4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

Job 19:5

Job 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

Job 19:6

Job 19:6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

Job 19:7

Job 19:7“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

Job 19:8

Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

Job 19:9

Job 19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

Job 19:10He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11

Job 19:11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.

Job 19:12

Job 19:12His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

Job 19:13

Job 19:13“He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Job 19:14

Job 19:14My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

Job 19:15My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

Job 19:16

Job 19:16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.

Job 19:17

Job 19:17My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

Job 19:18

Job 19:18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.

Job 19:19

Job 19:19All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20

Job 19:20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[fn]

Job 19:21

Job 19:21“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Job 19:22

Job 19:22Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Job 19:23

Job 19:23“Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

Job 19:24

Job 19:24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on[fn] lead, or engraved in rock forever!

Job 19:25

Job 19:25I know that my redeemer[fn] lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[fn]

Job 19:26

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

Job 19:27

Job 19:27I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

Job 19:28

Job 19:28“If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,[fn]’

Job 19:29

Job 19:29you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.[fn]”

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NIV Footnotes

Or only by my gums

Or and

Or vindicator

Or on my grave

Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then

(19:26)

Or destroyed, / apart from

(19:28)

Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me

(19:29)

Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty

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Job 19 :: New International Version (NIV)

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