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Job 19
New International Version

### Job

19 Then Job replied:

2 “How long will you torment(A) me
and crush(B) me with words?
3 Ten times(C) now you have reproached(D) me;
shamelessly you attack me.
4 If it is true that I have gone astray,
my error(E) remains my concern alone.
5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me(F)
and use my humiliation against me,
6 then know that God has wronged me(G)
and drawn his net(H) around me.(I)

7 “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;(J)
though I call for help,(K) there is no justice.(L)
8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;(M)
he has shrouded my paths in darkness.(N)
9 He has stripped(O) me of my honor(P)
and removed the crown from my head.(Q)
10 He tears me down(R) on every side till I am gone;
he uproots my hope(S) like a tree.(T)
11 His anger(U) burns against me;
he counts me among his enemies.(V)
12 His troops advance in force;(W)
they build a siege ramp(X) against me
and encamp around my tent.(Y)

13 “He has alienated my family(Z) from me;
my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.(AA)
14 My relatives have gone away;
my closest friends(AB) have forgotten me.
15 My guests(AC) and my female servants(AD) count me a foreigner;
they look on me as on a stranger.
16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
though I beg him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife;
I am loathsome(AE) to my own family.
18 Even the little boys(AF) scorn me;
when I appear, they ridicule me.(AG)
19 All my intimate friends(AH) detest me;(AI)
those I love have turned against me.(AJ)
20 I am nothing but skin and bones;(AK)
I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[a]

21 “Have pity on me, my friends,(AL) have pity,
for the hand of God has struck(AM) me.
22 Why do you pursue(AN) me as God does?(AO)
Will you never get enough of my flesh?(AP)

23 “Oh, that my words were recorded,
that they were written on a scroll,(AQ)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(AR) on[b] lead,
or engraved in rock forever!(AS)
25 I know that my redeemer[c](AT) lives,(AU)
and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[d]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet[e] in[f] my flesh I will see God;(AV)
27 I myself will see him
with my own eyes(AW)—I, and not another.
How my heart yearns(AX) within me!

28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound(AY) him,
since the root of the trouble lies in him,[g]’
29 you should fear the sword yourselves;
for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,(AZ)
and then you will know that there is judgment.[h]”(BA)

#### Footnotes

1. Job 19:20 Or only by my gums
2. Job 19:24 Or and
3. Job 19:25 Or vindicator
4. Job 19:25 Or on my grave
5. Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
6. Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from
7. Job 19:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me
8. Job 19:29 Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty

#### Cross references

1. Job 19:2 : Job 13:25
2. Job 19:2 : Job 6:9
3. Job 19:3 : S Ge 31:7
4. Job 19:3 : Job 20:3
5. Job 19:4 : Job 6:24
6. Job 19:5 : Ps 35:26; 38:16; 55:12
7. Job 19:6 : S Job 6:29
8. Job 19:6 : S Job 18:8
9. Job 19:6 : S Job 10:3
10. Job 19:7 : Job 30:20; Ps 22:2
11. Job 19:7 : Job 30:24, 28; 31:35; Ps 5:2
12. Job 19:7 : S Job 9:24; Hab 1:2-4
13. Job 19:8 : La 3:7; Hos 2:6
14. Job 19:8 : Job 3:26; 23:17; 30:26; Ecc 6:4; Isa 59:9; Jer 8:15; 14:19; La 3:2
15. Job 19:9 : S Job 12:17
16. Job 19:9 : Ge 43:28; Ex 12:42; Ps 15:4; 50:23; Pr 14:31
17. Job 19:9 : S Job 2:8; 29:14; Ps 89:39, 44; La 5:16
18. Job 19:10 : S Job 12:14
19. Job 19:10 : S Job 7:6
20. Job 19:10 : S Job 14:7
21. Job 19:11 : Job 16:9
22. Job 19:11 : S Job 13:24
23. Job 19:12 : S Job 16:13
24. Job 19:12 : S Job 16:10
25. Job 19:12 : S Job 3:23
26. Job 19:13 : Ps 69:8
27. Job 19:13 : ver 19; Job 16:7; 42:11; Ps 31:11; 38:11; 88:8
28. Job 19:14 : ver 19; S 2Sa 15:12; Job 12:4; 16:20; Ps 88:18; Jer 20:10; 38:22
29. Job 19:15 : Ge 14:14
30. Job 19:15 : Ecc 2:7
31. Job 19:17 : Ps 38:5
32. Job 19:18 : S 2Ki 2:23
33. Job 19:18 : S Job 16:10
34. Job 19:19 : S ver 14; S Job 6:14; Ps 55:12-13
35. Job 19:19 : Job 30:10
36. Job 19:19 : S ver 13; Jn 13:18
37. Job 19:20 : S Job 2:5
38. Job 19:21 : S Job 6:14
39. Job 19:21 : S Jdg 2:15; S Job 4:5; S 10:3; La 3:1
40. Job 19:22 : S Job 13:25
41. Job 19:22 : ver 6
42. Job 19:22 : S 2Ch 28:9; Ps 14:4; 27:2; 69:26; Pr 30:14; Isa 53:4
43. Job 19:23 : S Ex 17:14; S Ps 40:7; S Isa 8:1
44. Job 19:24 : Jer 17:1
45. Job 19:24 : S Job 16:18
46. Job 19:25 : S Ex 6:6; S Lev 25:25; Ps 68:5; 78:35; Pr 23:11; Isa 41:14; 43:14; 44:6, 24; 47:4; 48:17; 49:26; 54:5; 59:20; 60:16
47. Job 19:25 : S 1Sa 14:39; Job 16:19
48. Job 19:26 : S Nu 12:8; S Mt 5:8; 1Co 13:12; 1Jn 3:2
49. Job 19:27 : Lk 2:30
50. Job 19:27 : Ps 42:1; 63:1; 84:2
51. Job 19:28 : S Job 13:25
52. Job 19:29 : Job 15:22
53. Job 19:29 : Job 27:13-23; Ps 1:5; 9:7; 58:11; Ecc 3:17; 11:9; 12:14

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