Job Feels Insulted
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Then Job 1responded,
How long will you torment 1me
And crush me with words?
These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.
If indeed you Avaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
Know then that AGod has wronged me
And has closed BHis net around me.
Everything Is against Him
Behold, AI cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
“He has Awalled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put Bdarkness on my paths.
“He has Astripped my honor from me
And removed the Bcrown from my head.
10 “He Abreaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my Bhope Clike a tree.
11 “He has also Akindled His anger against me
And Bconsidered me as His enemy.
12 “His Atroops come together,
And Bbuild up their 1way against me
And camp around my tent.
13 “He has Aremoved my brothers far from me,
And my Bacquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14 “My relatives have failed,
And my Aintimate friends have forgotten me.
15 “Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 “I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth.
17 “My breath is 1offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
18 Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me.
19 All 1my Aassociates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.
20 “My Abone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the Ahand of God has struck me.
22 Why do you Apersecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job Says, “My Redeemer Lives”
23 Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were Ainscribed in a book!
24 “That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
25 “As for me, I know that Amy 1Redeemer lives,
And 2at the last He will take His stand on the 3earth.
26 “Even after my skin 1is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall Asee God;
27  Whom I 1myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My 2heart Afaints 3within me!
28 If you say, ‘How shall we Apersecute him?’
And ‘1What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
29 Then be afraid of Athe sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know Bthere is judgment.”
1 19:1 Lit answered and said 1 19:2 Lit my soul A 19:5 Ps 35:26; 38:16; 55:12, 13 A 19:6 Job 16:11; 27:2 B 19:6 Job 18:8-10; Ps 66:11; Lam 1:13 A 19:7 Job 9:24; 30:20, 24; Hab 1:2 A 19:8 Job 3:23; Lam 3:7, 9 B 19:8 Job 30:26 A 19:9 Job 12:17, 19; Ps 89:44 B 19:9 Job 16:15; Ps 89:39; Lam 5:16 A 19:10 Job 12:14 B 19:10 Job 7:6 C 19:10 Job 24:20 A 19:11 Job 16:9 B 19:11 Job 13:24; 33:10 A 19:12 Job 16:13 B 19:12 Job 30:12 1 19:12 I.e. siegework A 19:13 Job 16:7; Ps 69:8 B 19:13 Job 16:20; Ps 88:8, 18 A 19:14 Job 19:19 1 19:17 Lit strange 1 19:19 Lit the men of my council A 19:19 Ps 38:11; 55:12, 13 A 19:20 Job 16:8; 33:21; Ps 102:5; Lam 4:8 A 19:21 Job 1:11; Ps 38:2 A 19:22 Job 13:24, 25; 16:11; 19:6; Ps 69:26 A 19:23 Is 30:8; Jer 36:2 A 19:25 Job 16:19; Ps 78:35; Prov 23:11; Is 43:14; Jer 50:34 1 19:25 Or Vindicator, defender; lit kinsman 2 19:25 Or as the Last 3 19:25 Lit dust 1 19:26 Lit which they have cut off A 19:26 Ps 17:15; Matt 5:8; 1 Cor 13:12; 1 John 3:2 1 19:27 Or on my side 2 19:27 Lit kidneys A 19:27 Ps 73:26 3 19:27 Lit in my loins A 19:28 Job 19:22 1 19:28 Or the root of the matter is found in him A 19:29 Job 15:22 B 19:29 Job 22:4; Ps 1:5; 9:7; Eccl 12:14