Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options Listen to Job 19
Close GNV

Job 19
1599 Geneva Bible

19 2 Job reproveth his friends,  8 and reciteth his miseries and grievous pains. 25 He assureth himself of the general resurrection.

1 But Job answered, and said,

2 How long will ye vex my soul, and torment me with words?

3 Ye have now [a]ten times reproached me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward me.

4 And though I had indeed erred, mine error [b]remaineth with me.

5 But indeed if ye will advance yourselves against me, and rebuke me for my reproach,

6 Know now, that God hath [c]overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

7 Behold, I cry out of violence, but I have none answer: I cry, but there is no judgment.

8 He hath hedged up my way that I cannot [d]pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

9 He hath spoiled me of mine honor, and taken the [e]crown away from mine head.

10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and he hath removed mine hope like [f]a tree.

11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth me as one of his enemies.

12 His [g]armies came together, and made their way upon me, and camped about my tabernacle.

13 He hath removed my brethren far from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers unto me.

14 My neighbors have forsaken me, and my familiars have forgotten me.

15 [h]They that dwell in mine house, and my maids took me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.

16 I called my servant, but he would not answer, though I prayed him with my mouth.

17 My breath was strange unto my wife, though I prayed her for the children’s sake of mine [i]own body.

18 The wicked also despised me, and when I rose, they spake against me.

19 All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved, are turned against me.

20 My bone [j]cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the [k]skin of my teeth.

21 Have pity upon me: have [l]pity upon me, (O ye my friends) for the hand of God hath touched me.

22 Why do ye persecute me, as [m]God? and are not satisfied with my [n]flesh?

23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were written even in a book,

24 And graven with [o]an iron pen in lead, or in stone forever!

25 For I am sure that my [p]Redeemer liveth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.

26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet shall I see God [q]in my flesh.

27 Whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes shall behold, and none other for me, though my reins are consumed within me.

28 But ye said, Why is he persecuted? And there was a [r]deep matter in me.

29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for the sword will be [s]avenged of wickedness, that ye may know that there is a judgment.

Footnotes

  1. Job 19:3 That is, many times, as Neh. 4:12.
  2. Job 19:4 That is, I myself shall be punished for it, or you have not yet confuted it.
  3. Job 19:6 He bursteth out again into his passions, and declareth still that his affliction cometh of God, though he be not able to feel the cause in himself.
  4. Job 19:8 Meaning, out of his afflictions.
  5. Job 19:9 Meaning, his children, and whatsoever was dear unto him in this world.
  6. Job 19:10 Which is plucked up, and hath no more hope to grow.
  7. Job 19:12 His manifold afflictions.
  8. Job 19:15 Mine household servants: by all these losses Job showeth that touching the flesh he had great occasion to be moved.
  9. Job 19:17 Which were hers and mine.
  10. Job 19:20 Besides these great losses and most cruel unkindness, he was touched in his own person, as followeth.
  11. Job 19:20 All my flesh was consumed.
  12. Job 19:21 Seeing I have these just causes to complain, condemn me not as an hypocrite, specially ye which should comfort me.
  13. Job 19:22 Is it not enough that God doth punish me, except you by reproaches increase my sorrow?
  14. Job 19:22 To see my body punished, except ye trouble my mind?
  15. Job 19:24 He protesteth that notwithstanding his sore passions his religion is perfect: and that he is not a blasphemer as they judged him.
  16. Job 19:25 I do not so justify myself before the world, but I know that I shall come before the great Judge, who shall be my deliverer and Savior.
  17. Job 19:26 Herein Job declareth plainly that he had a full hope, that both the soul and body should enjoy the presence of God in the last resurrection.
  18. Job 19:28 Though his friends thought that he was but persecuted of God for his sins, yet he declareth that there was a deeper consideration, to wit, the trial of his faith and patience, and so to be an example for others.
  19. Job 19:29 God will be revenged of this hasty judgment, whereby you condemned me.
Close LEB

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

  1. Job 19:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 19:2 Literally “Until when”
  3. Job 19:2 Plural
  4. Job 19:2 Hebrew “my soul,” or “my self”
  5. Job 19:3 Plural
  6. Job 19:3 Plural
  7. Job 19:3 Plural
  8. Job 19:3 Or “astonished”
  9. Job 19:5 Plural
  10. Job 19:5 Plural
  11. Job 19:7 Or “and”
  12. Job 19:7 Hebrew “and”
  13. Job 19:8 Hebrew “and”
  14. Job 19:9 Or “from”
  15. Job 19:11 Literally “he has counted me for him as his foes”
  16. Job 19:12 Or “siege works”; compare NRSV
  17. Job 19:13 Or “completely”
  18. Job 19:15 Or “of”
  19. Job 19:16 Hebrew “and”
  20. Job 19:16 Literally “with my mouth”
  21. Job 19:17 Literally “to the children of my womb”
  22. Job 19:18 Hebrew “and”
  23. Job 19:19 Literally “the men of the circle of my confidants”
  24. Job 19:20 Collective singular
  25. Job 19:22 Plural
  26. Job 19:23 Literally “Who then shall give and”
  27. Job 19:23 Literally “Who shall give in the scroll and they could be inscribed”
  28. Job 19:25 Hebrew “And”
  29. Job 19:25 Emphatic personal pronoun
  30. Job 19:25 Literally “dust”
  31. Job 19:26 Hebrew “and”
  32. Job 19:26 Or “without”
  33. Job 19:27 Literally “I myself will see for myself”; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb
  34. Job 19:27 Or “another”
  35. Job 19:27 Literally “My kidneys fail in my lap”; see NRSV
  36. Job 19:28 Plural
  37. Job 19:28 Or “‘The root of the trouble is found’ in him”
  38. Job 19:29 Literally “from the faces of the sword”
  39. Job 19:29 Literally “of”
Next
Job 18
Job 20
Next
dropdown
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)

Geneva Bible, 1599 Edition. Published by Tolle Lege Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations in articles, reviews, and broadcasts.

The 1599 Geneva Bible - A publication of Tolle Lege Press
Lexham English Bible (LEB)

2012 by Logos Bible Software. Lexham is a registered trademark of Logos Bible Software