Job 19

Job Replies: I Know That My Vindicator Lives

1Then Job answered:

2“How long will you torment me

and break me in pieces with words?

3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;

are you not ashamed to wrong me?

4 # Job 6.24 And even if it is true that I have erred,

my error remains with me.

5 # Ps 35.26; 38.16 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me

and make my humiliation an argument against me,

6 # Job 18.8–10; 27.2 know then that God has put me in the wrong

and closed his net around me.

7 # Job 30.20 Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered;

I call aloud, but there is no justice.

8 # Job 3.23; 30.26 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,

and he has set darkness upon my paths.

9 # Ps 89.39, 44 He has stripped my glory from me

and taken the crown from my head.

10 # Job 7.6; 12.14; 24.20 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;

he has uprooted my hope like a tree.

11 # Job 13.24; 16.9 He has kindled his wrath against me

and counts me as his adversary.

12 # Job 30.12 His troops come on together;

they have thrown up siegeworks#19.12 Cn: Heb their way against me

and encamp around my tent.

13“He has put my family far from me,

and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

14My relatives and my close friends have failed me;

15 # Gen 14.14; Eccl 2.7 the guests in my house have forgotten me;

my female servants count me as a stranger;

I have become an alien in their eyes.

16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;

I must myself plead with him.

17My breath is repulsive to my wife;

I am loathsome to my own family.

18 # 2 Kings 2.23 Even young children despise me;

when I rise, they talk against me.

19 # Ps 38.11; 55.13 All my intimate friends abhor me,

and those whom I love have turned against me.

20 # Job 33.21; Ps 102.5 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,

and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21 # Job 6.14; Ps 38.2 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,

for the hand of God has touched me!

22 # Job 16.11 Why do you, like God, pursue me,

never satisfied with my flesh?

23 # Isa 30.8 “O that my words were written down!

O that they were inscribed in a book!

24 # Jer 17.1 O that with an iron pen and with lead

they were engraved on a rock forever!

25 # Job 16.19; Ps 78.35; Isa 43.14; Jer 50.34 For I know that my vindicator#19.25 Or redeemer lives

and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;

26 # Mt 5.8; 1 Cor 13.12; 1 Jn 3.2 and after my skin has been destroyed,

then in my flesh I shall see God,

27 # Ps 73.26 whom I shall see on my side,

and my eyes shall behold, and not another.

My heart faints within me!

28 # Ps 69.26 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’

and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’

29 # Job 22.4 be afraid of the sword,

for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,

so that you may know there is a judgment.”

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