13 “He has alienated my family(A) from me;
    my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.(B)
14 My relatives have gone away;
    my closest friends(C) have forgotten me.
15 My guests(D) and my female servants(E) 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(F) to my own family.
18 Even the little boys(G) scorn me;
    when I appear, they ridicule me.(H)
19 All my intimate friends(I) detest me;(J)
    those I love have turned against me.(K)
20 I am nothing but skin and bones;(L)
    I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[a]

21 “Have pity on me, my friends,(M) have pity,
    for the hand of God has struck(N) me.
22 Why do you pursue(O) me as God does?(P)
    Will you never get enough of my flesh?(Q)

23 “Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,(R)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(S) on[b] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!(T)
25 I know that my redeemer[c](U) lives,(V)
    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;(W)
27 I myself will see him
    with my own eyes(X)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns(Y) within me!

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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

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