Read Job 19

World English Bible · 29 verses

1. ¹ Then Job answered,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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