13 He has removed my brothers from me;
my acquaintances have abandoned me.(A)
14 My relatives stop coming by,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 My house guests[a] and female servants regard me as a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.(B)
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[b] finds me repulsive.
18 Even young boys scorn me.
When I stand up, they mock me.(C)
19 All of my best friends[c] despise me,(D)
and those I love have turned against me.(E)
20 My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:15 Or The resident aliens in my household
  2. Job 19:17 Lit and the sons of my belly
  3. Job 19:19 Lit of the men of my council

13 “He has removed my kinsfolk from me,
and my acquaintances have only[a] turned aside from me.
14 My relatives have failed,
and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 The sojourners in[b] 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[c] he does not answer;
I must personally[d] plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife,
and I am loathsome to my own family.[e]
18 Little boys also despise me;
when I rise, then[f] they talk against me.
19 All my intimate friends[g] abhor me,
and these whom I have loved have turned against me.
20 My bones[h] cling to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:13 Or “completely”
  2. Job 19:15 Or “of”
  3. Job 19:16 Hebrew “and”
  4. Job 19:16 Literally “with my mouth”
  5. Job 19:17 Literally “to the children of my womb”
  6. Job 19:18 Hebrew “and”
  7. Job 19:19 Literally “the men of the circle of my confidants”
  8. Job 19:20 Collective singular