Job 19:1 (BSB)
Then Job answered:

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

Job 19:3 (BSB)
Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

Job 19:4 (BSB)
Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

Job 19:5 (BSB)
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

Job 19:6 (BSB)
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

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

Job 19:8 (BSB)
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

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

Job 19:10 (BSB)
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11 (BSB)
His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

Job 19:12 (BSB)
His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

Job 19:13 (BSB)
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Job 19:14 (BSB)
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15 (BSB)
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16 (BSB)
I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

Job 19:17 (BSB)
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Job 19:18 (BSB)
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

Job 19:19 (BSB)
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20 (BSB)
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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

Job 19:22 (BSB)
Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Job 19:23 (BSB)
I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

Job 19:24 (BSB)
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

Job 19:25 (BSB)
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

Job 19:26 (BSB)
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

Job 19:27 (BSB)
I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

Job 19:28 (BSB)
If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

Job 19:29 (BSB)
then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
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