Job 19:6-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 know then that God has put me in the wrong
and closed his net around me.(A)
7 Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered;
I call aloud, but there is no justice.(B)
8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
and he has set darkness upon my paths.(C)
9 He has stripped my glory from me
and taken the crown from my head.(D)
10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
he has uprooted my hope like a tree.(E)
11 He has kindled his wrath against me
and counts me as his adversary.(F)
12 His troops come on together;
they have thrown up siegeworks[a] against me
and encamp around my tent.(G)
13 “He has put my family far from me,
and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
15 the guests in my house have forgotten me;
my female servants count me as a stranger;
I have become an alien in their eyes.(H)
16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must myself plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even young children despise me;
when I rise, they talk against me.(I)
19 All my intimate friends abhor me,
and those whom I love have turned against me.(J)
20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.(K)
Footnotes
- 19.12 Cn: Heb their way
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