Job 19
Lexham English Bible
Job’s Sixth Speech: A Response to Bildad
19 Then[a] Job answered and said,
2 “How long[b] will you[c] torment me[d]
and crush me with words?
3 These ten times you[e] have disgraced me;
you[f] are not ashamed that you[g] have attacked[h] me.
4 And what is more, if I have truly erred,
my error remains with me.
5 If indeed you[i] must magnify yourselves against me,
and you[j] must let my disgrace argue against me,
6 know then that God has wronged me
and has surrounded me with his net.
7 “Look, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but[k] I am not answered;
I cry out, but[l] there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that[m] I cannot pass;
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 He has taken my glory from me,
and he has removed the crown of[n] my head.
10 He has broken me down all around, and I am gone.
And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,
11 and he has kindled his wrath against me,
and he has counted me as one of his foes.[o]
12 His troops have come together
and have thrown up their rampart[p] against me
and have encamped around my tent.
13 “He has removed my kinsfolk from me,
and my acquaintances have only[q] turned aside from me.
14 My relatives have failed,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 The sojourners in[r] my house and my slave women count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but[s] he does not answer;
I must personally[t] plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife,
and I am loathsome to my own family.[u]
18 Little boys also despise me;
when I rise, then[v] they talk against me.
19 All my intimate friends[w] abhor me,
and these whom I have loved have turned against me.
20 My bones[x] cling to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 “Pity me, pity me, you my friends,
for God’s hand has touched me.
22 Why do you[y] pursue me like God?
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 “O that[z] my words could be written down!
O that they could be inscribed in a scroll![aa]
24 That with a pen of iron and with lead
they might be engraved on a rock forever!
25 But[ab] I myself[ac] know that my redeemer is alive,
and at the last he will stand up upon the earth.[ad]
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
but[ae] from[af] my flesh I will see God,
27 whom I will see for myself,[ag]
and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.[ah]
My heart faints within me.[ai]
28 “If you[aj] say, ‘How will we persecute him?’
And ‘The root of the trouble is found’ in me,[ak]
29 be afraid for yourselves because of the sword,[al]
for wrath brings punishment by[am] the sword,
so that you may know that there is judgment.”
Footnotes
- Job 19:1 Hebrew “And”
- Job 19:2 Literally “Until when”
- Job 19:2 Plural
- Job 19:2 Hebrew “my soul,” or “my self”
- Job 19:3 Plural
- Job 19:3 Plural
- Job 19:3 Plural
- Job 19:3 Or “astonished”
- Job 19:5 Plural
- Job 19:5 Plural
- Job 19:7 Or “and”
- Job 19:7 Hebrew “and”
- Job 19:8 Hebrew “and”
- Job 19:9 Or “from”
- Job 19:11 Literally “he has counted me for him as his foes”
- Job 19:12 Or “siege works”; compare NRSV
- Job 19:13 Or “completely”
- Job 19:15 Or “of”
- Job 19:16 Hebrew “and”
- Job 19:16 Literally “with my mouth”
- Job 19:17 Literally “to the children of my womb”
- Job 19:18 Hebrew “and”
- Job 19:19 Literally “the men of the circle of my confidants”
- Job 19:20 Collective singular
- Job 19:22 Plural
- Job 19:23 Literally “Who then shall give and”
- Job 19:23 Literally “Who shall give in the scroll and they could be inscribed”
- Job 19:25 Hebrew “And”
- Job 19:25 Emphatic personal pronoun
- Job 19:25 Literally “dust”
- Job 19:26 Hebrew “and”
- Job 19:26 Or “without”
- Job 19:27 Literally “I myself will see for myself”; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb
- Job 19:27 Or “another”
- Job 19:27 Literally “My kidneys fail in my lap”; see NRSV
- Job 19:28 Plural
- Job 19:28 Or “‘The root of the trouble is found’ in him”
- Job 19:29 Literally “from the faces of the sword”
- Job 19:29 Literally “of”
Job 19
21st Century King James Version
19 Then Job answered and said:
2 “How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4 And if it be indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
6 know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with His net.
7 “Behold, I cry out because of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way, that I cannot pass, and He hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and mine hope hath He removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of His enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13 “He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintances are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the sake of the children of my own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
19 All my intimate friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 “Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me!
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were printed in a book,
24 that they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth;
26 and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God,
27 whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me.
28 “But should ye say, ‘Why persecute we him?’—seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
29 Be ye afraid of the sword; for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.”
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