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
Christian Standard Bible
Job’s Reply to Bildad
19 Then Job answered:
2 How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?
3 You have humiliated me ten times now,
and you mistreat[a] me without shame.(A)
4 Even if it is true that I have sinned,
my mistake concerns only[b] me.
5 If you really want to appear superior(B) to me
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me
and caught me in his net.(C)
7 I cry out, “Violence!” but get no response;(D)
I call for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has blocked(E) my way so that I cannot pass through;
he has veiled my paths with darkness.(F)
9 He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
10 He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.[c]
He uproots my hope like a tree.(G)
11 His anger(H) burns against me,
and he regards me as one of his enemies.(I)
12 His troops advance together;
they construct a ramp[d] against me
and camp(J) around my tent.
13 He has removed my brothers from me;
my acquaintances have abandoned me.(K)
14 My relatives stop coming by,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 My house guests[e] and female servants regard me as a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.(L)
16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
even if I beg him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife,
and my own family[f] finds me repulsive.
18 Even young boys scorn me.
When I stand up, they mock me.(M)
19 All of my best friends[g] despise me,(N)
and those I love have turned against me.(O)
20 My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
21 Have mercy on me, my friends,(P) have mercy,
for God’s hand(Q) has struck me.(R)
22 Why do you persecute me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 I wish that my words were written down,
that they were recorded on a scroll
24 or were inscribed in stone forever
by an iron stylus and lead!
25 But I know that my Redeemer lives,[h](S)
and at the end he will stand on the dust.(T)
26 Even after my skin has been destroyed,[i]
yet I will see God in[j] my flesh.(U)
27 I will see him myself;
my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger.[k]
My heart longs[l] within me.(V)
28 If you say, “How will we pursue him,
since the root of the problem lies with him?” [m]
29 then be afraid of the sword,
because wrath brings punishment by the sword,(W)
so that you may know there is a judgment.
Footnotes
- 19:3 Hb obscure
- 19:4 Lit mistake lives with
- 19:10 Lit gone
- 19:12 Lit they raise up their way
- 19:15 Or The resident aliens in my household
- 19:17 Lit and the sons of my belly
- 19:19 Lit of the men of my council
- 19:25 Or know my living Redeemer
- 19:26 Lit skin which they destroyed, or skin they destroyed in this way
- 19:26 Or apart from
- 19:27 Or not a stranger
- 19:27 Lit My kidneys grow faint
- 19:28 Some Hb mss, LXX, Vg; other Hb mss read me
Jób 19
Hungarian Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Jób ötödik válasza
19 Ezután Jób válaszolt:
2 „Meddig gyötörtök még,
meddig kínoztok efféle beszédekkel?!
3 Százszor is megaláztatok már!
Nem szégyelltek így rám támadni?!
4 Még ha valóban tévedtem is,
mi közötök hozzá?
5 Csak fölém akartok kerekedni,
hogy igazabbnak tűnjetek nálam,
ezért mondjátok, hogy megaláztatásomnak
magam vagyok az oka.
6 Tudjátok meg hát, hogy Isten alázott meg engem!
Ő kerített hálójába.
7 Hiába kiáltozom: »Segítség!«
Nem érkezik válasz.
Hiába keresem igazamat,
nem hallgat meg senki.
8 Isten torlaszolta el utamat,
nem mehetek tovább!
Sötétségbe borította ösvényemet.
9 Megfosztott a tisztelettől és megbecsüléstől,
amely, mint korona ékesítette fejem.
10 Körös-körül lerombolta minden védelmem,
egészen végem van!
Annyi reményem maradt,
mint a gyökerestül kitépett fának.
11 Haragra lobbant ellenem,
s mint ellenségével, úgy bánt velem.
12 Ellenem küldte seregeit,
ostromgyűrűt vontak körém,
lakóhelyem körülvette táboruk.
13 Testvéreimet eltávolította tőlem,
ismerőseim is idegennek tekintenek,
14 rokonaim elhagytak,
elfelejtettek még a barátaim is.
15 Fizetett szolgáim és a szolgaleányok
rám sem ismernek, idegennek tekintenek.
16 Ha szólítom szolgámat, nem felel,
hiába könyörgök, nem is válaszol.
17 Feleségem undorodik leheletemtől,
testvéreim iszonyodnak tőlem.
18 Még a gyermekek is lenéznek,
s kicsúfolnak, ha felkelek.
19 Bizalmas barátaim megutáltak,
akiket szerettem, ellenem fordultak.
20 Csupa csont és bőr vagyok,
alig maradt bennem élet.
21 Könyörüljetek rajtam, barátaim, könyörüljetek,
mert Isten keze sújtott le rám!
22 Még ti is üldöztök, mint Isten?
Mikor fáradtok már bele?
23 Ó bárcsak feljegyeznék szavaimat!
Bárcsak könyvtekercsbe írnák azokat!
24 Vasvesszővel írják ólomtáblára,
sziklába véssék, hogy fennmaradjon örökre!
25 Mert tudom, hogy Megváltóm él!
Mikor eljön a vég, itt fog állni a Földön,
és védelmemre kel!
26 Miután bőröm és testem elpusztul,
meg fogom látni Istent!
27 Igen, meglátom őt a saját szememmel!
Én magam látom meg,
és nem lesz számomra idegen![a]
Mennyire égeti belső részeimet,
28 mikor ezt mondjátok: »Jöjjetek, üldözzük Jóbot!
Mutassuk meg, hogy szenvedésének oka őbenne rejlik!«
29 Így hát jobb, ha féltek a büntetéstől,
mert haragotok bűn, amely büntetést érdemel,
S majd ti is megtudjátok, milyen az ítélet!”
Footnotes
- Jób 19:27 Mikor… idegen Vagy: „Mikor eljön a vég, itt fog állni a Földön, és védelmemre kel, 26 miután már bőröm és testem elpusztult. De én látni akarom Istent, amíg még ebben a testben vagyok! 27 Saját szememmel akarom látni őt, nem valaki más szemével. Mennyire kívánom, hogy ez megtörténjen!”
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