Job 19
The Message
Job Answers Bildad
I Call for Help and No One Bothers
19 1-6 Job answered:
“How long are you going to keep battering away at me,
pounding me with these harangues?
Time after time after time you jump all over me.
Do you have no conscience, abusing me like this?
Even if I have, somehow or other, gotten off the track,
what business is that of yours?
Why do you insist on putting me down,
using my troubles as a stick to beat me?
Tell it to God—he’s the one behind all this,
he’s the one who dragged me into this mess.
7-12 “Look at me—I shout ‘Murder!’ and I’m ignored;
I call for help and no one bothers to stop.
God threw a barricade across my path—I’m stymied;
he turned out all the lights—I’m stuck in the dark.
He destroyed my reputation,
robbed me of all self-respect.
He tore me apart piece by piece—I’m ruined!
Then he yanked out hope by the roots.
He’s angry with me—oh, how he’s angry!
He treats me like his worst enemy.
He has launched a major campaign against me,
using every weapon he can think of,
coming at me from all sides at once.
I Know That God Lives
13-20 “God alienated my family from me;
everyone who knows me avoids me.
My relatives and friends have all left;
houseguests forget I ever existed.
The servant girls treat me like a deadbeat off the street,
look at me like they’ve never seen me before.
I call my attendant and he ignores me,
ignores me even though I plead with him.
My wife can’t stand to be around me anymore.
I’m repulsive to my family.
Even street urchins despise me;
when I come out, they taunt and jeer.
Everyone I’ve ever been close to abhors me;
my dearest loved ones reject me.
I’m nothing but a bag of bones;
my life hangs by a thread.
21-22 “Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me.
God has come down hard on me!
Do you have to be hard on me, too?
Don’t you ever tire of abusing me?
23-27 “If only my words were written in a book—
better yet, chiseled in stone!
Still, I know that God lives—the One who gives me back my life—
and eventually he’ll take his stand on earth.
And I’ll see him—even though I get skinned alive!—
see God myself, with my very own eyes.
Oh, how I long for that day!
28-29 “If you’re thinking, ‘How can we get through to him,
get him to see that his trouble is all his own fault?’
Forget it. Start worrying about yourselves.
Worry about your own sins and God’s coming judgment,
for judgment is most certainly on the way.”
Job 19
International Children’s Bible
Job Answers Bildad
19 Then Job answered:
2 “How long will you hurt me
and crush me with your words?
3 You have insulted me ten times now.
You attack me without shame.
4 If I have sinned,
it is my worry alone.
5 Maybe you want to make yourselves look better than I do
so you can blame me for my suffering.
6 Then know that God has wronged me.
He has pulled his net around me.
7 “I shout, ‘I have been wronged!’
But I get no answer.
I call loudly for help,
but I receive no justice.
8 God has blocked my way so I cannot pass.
He has covered my paths with darkness.
9 He has taken away my honor.
He has removed the crown from my head.
10 He beats me down on every side until I am gone.
He pulls up my hope as a tree is pulled up by its roots.
11 His anger burns against me.
And he treats me as one of his enemies.
12 His armies gather.
They prepare a way to attack me.
They camp around my tent.
13 “God has made my brothers my enemies.
My friends have become complete strangers.
14 My relatives have gone away.
My friends have forgotten me.
15 My guests and my women servants think of me as a stranger.
They look at me as if I were a foreigner.
16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer.
I even beg him with my own mouth.
17 My wife hates my breath.
My own family hates me.
18 Even the little boys hate me.
When I leave, they talk about me.
19 All my close friends hate me.
Even those I love have turned against me.
20 I am nothing but skin and bones.
I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me, my friends. Pity me!
The hand of God has hit me.
22 Why do you chase me as God does?
Haven’t you had enough of hurting my body?
23 “How I wish my words were written down.
I wish they were written on a scroll.
24 I wish they were carved with an iron pen into lead,
or carved into stone forever!
25 I know that my Defender lives.
And in the end he will come to show that I am right.
26 Even after my skin has been destroyed,
in my flesh I will still see God.
27 I will see him myself.
I myself will see him with my own eyes.
How my heart wants that to happen!
28 “You may say, ‘We will continue to trouble Job.
The problem lies with him.’
29 But you should be afraid of the sword yourselves.
God’s anger will bring punishment by the sword.
Then you will know that there is judgment.”
约伯记 19
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
约伯责友待己宽待人严
19 约伯回答说：
2 “你们叫我受苦要到几时呢？
用话压碎我要到几时呢？
3 你们已经十次侮辱我，
你们苛刻地对我，也不觉得羞耻。
4 即使我真的有过错，
由我承担好了。
5 你们若真的妄自尊大攻击我，
用我的羞辱来证明我的不是，
6 那么，就知道是 神颠倒我的案件，
用他的网圈住我。
7 我呼叫‘强暴！’却没有回答；
我呼求，却得不到公断。
8 神用篱笆拦阻我的道路，使我不能经过；
他又使黑暗笼罩我的路。
9 他从我身上剥去我的荣耀，
又挪去我头上的冠冕。
10 他四面拆毁我，我就离世，
他又把我这指望如树枝一样拔出来。
11 他的怒气向我发作，
把我看作他的敌人；
12 他的军队一起上来，
他们建筑高的斜道攻击我（“高的斜道”直译是“他们的道路”），在我的帐棚周围安营。
约伯被亲友疏远
13 他使我的族人远离我，
使我熟悉的人完全与我疏远。
14 我的亲戚离弃我，
我的朋友忘记我；
15 在我家中寄居的和我的婢女，都把我当作外人，
我在他们的眼中是个外族人。
16 我呼唤仆人，他不回答，
我得用口哀求他。
17 妻子厌恶我的气息，
同胞兄弟也厌弃我，
18 连小孩子也藐视我，
我一起来，他们就讥笑我；
19 我所有的密友都憎恶我，
我所爱的人也向我反脸。
20 我的骨头紧贴着皮肉，
我只剩牙皮逃过大难。
向友求怜
21 我的朋友啊！求你们怜悯我，怜悯我吧！
因为 神的手击打了我。
22 你们为甚么有如 神那样逼迫我？
还不因吃我的肉感到满足吗？
深信终必得蒙救恩
23 但愿我的话现在都写下，
都刻在书简上，
24 用铁笔又用铅，
永远刻在盘石上。
25 我知道我的救赎主活着，
最后他必在地上兴起（“最后他必在地上兴起”或译：“最后他必站立在地上”）。
26 我的皮肉遭受毁坏以后，这事就要发生，
我必在肉体以外得见 神。
27 我必见他在我身边，
我要亲眼见他，并非外人，
我的心肠在我里面渴想极了。
28 你们若说：‘惹事的根既然在他，
我们要怎样逼迫他呢？’
29 你们就当惧怕刀剑，
因为这些罪孽带来刀剑的惩罚，
好使你们知道有审判。”
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