8.
Job's complaint against his friends in their wrong reproach
19:1-5
Job 19
:1
19:1
Then Job answered and said,
Job 19
:2
19:2
How long will you grieve my soul
And crush me with
your words?
Job 19
:3
19:3
These aten times you have reproached me;
You are not ashamed to deal wrongly with me.
Job 19
:4
19:4
And be it that I have erred,
My error remains with me.
Job 19
:5
19:5
If you indeed magnify yourselves against me
And use my reproach in argument against me,
9.
Job's complaint toward God in His severe stripping
19:6-29
Job 19
:6
19:6
Know then that God has
1subverted my cause
And compassed me about with His net.
Job 19
:7
19:7
Indeed, I cry out, Violence! and I am not answered;
I call for help, and there is no justice.
Job 19
:8
19:8
He has
awalled up my way so that I cannot pass;
And He has put darkness upon my paths.
Job 19
:9
19:9
He has stripped my
1glory from me
And taken away the
1crown on my head.
Job 19
:10
19:10
He has broken me all around, and I am gone;
And my
1hope is plucked up like a tree.
Job 19
:11
19:11
He has also kindled His
1anger against me,
And in Himself He considers me as His
aadversary.
Job 19
:12
19:12
His troops come together
And cast up their highway against me
And encamp all around my tent.
Job 19
:13
19:13
He has removed my brothers far from me,
And those who know me are wholly estranged from me.
Job 19
:14
19:14
My relatives have failed
me,
And my acquaintances have forgotten me.
Job 19
:15
19:15
Those who sojourn in my house and my maids consider me as a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their eyes.
Job 19
:16
19:16
To my servant I call out, but he does not answer;
I entreat him with my mouth.
Job 19
:17
19:17
My breath is strange to my wife;
And
1my supplications, to the children of my
mother’s womb.
Job 19
:18
19:18
Even little children despise me:
I arise and they speak against me.
Job 19
:19
19:19
All the men whom I take counsel with abhor me,
And those whom I love have turned against me.
Job 19
:20
19:20
My abones cleave to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19
:21
19:21
Pity me, pity me, O my friends;
For the
ahand of God has touched me.
Job 19
:22
19:22
Why do you persecute me as God does
And are not satisfied with
eating my flesh?
Job 19
:23
19:23
Oh, that my words were now written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a
abook!
Job 19
:24
19:24
That with an
airon pen and with lead
They were engraved in rock forever!
Job 19
:25
19:25
But I know that my
1aRedeemer lives,
And at the last He will stand upon the earth;
Job 19
:26
19:26
And after this body of mine is destroyed,
Outside my flesh I will
alook on God,
Job 19
:27
19:27
Whom I, even I, will look on for myself,
And my eyes will see;
I, and no other.
My inward parts that long for
God are consumed within me.
Job 19
:28
19:28
If you say, How will we persecute him?
For the root of the matter is found in him;
Job 19
:29
19:29
Be fearful of the sword,
For wrath
brings the punishment of the sword,
That you may know that there is a judgment.
