19Job 19

Job

2Why do you keep tormenting me with words?Select Job 19:2

3Time after time you insult me and show no shame for the way you abuse me.Select Job 19:3

4Even if I have done wrong, how does that hurt you?Select Job 19:4

5You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.Select Job 19:5

6Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me.Select Job 19:6

7I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice.Select Job 19:7

8God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness.Select Job 19:8

9He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation.Select Job 19:9

10He batters me from every side. He uproots my hope and leaves me to wither and die.Select Job 19:10

11God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy.Select Job 19:11

12He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent.Select Job 19:12

13God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;Select Job 19:13

14my relatives and friends are gone.Select Job 19:14

15Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.Select Job 19:15

16When I call a servant, he doesn't answer— even when I beg him to help me.Select Job 19:16

17My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.Select Job 19:17

18Children despise me and laugh when they see me.Select Job 19:18

19My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.Select Job 19:19

20My skin hangs loose on my bones; I have barely escaped with my life.Select Job 19:20

21You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.Select Job 19:21

22Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?Select Job 19:22

23How I wish that someone would remember my words and record them in a book!Select Job 19:23

24Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.Select Job 19:24

25But I know there is someone in heaven who will come at last to my defense.Select Job 19:25

26Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.Select Job 19:26

27I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger. My courage failed because you said,Select Job 19:27

28“How can we torment him?” You looked for some excuse to attack me.Select Job 19:28

29But now, be afraid of the sword— the sword that brings God's wrath on sin, so that you will know there is one who judges.Select Job 19:29