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Passage Lookup: Job 19

NASNew American Standard Bible
KJVKing James Version
Then Job responded,
Job 19:1
Then Job answered and said,
"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
Job 19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
Job 19:3
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
"Even if I have truly done wrong, My error stays with me.
Job 19:4
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
"If indeed you exalt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Know then that God has wronged me And has surrounded me with His net.
Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
"Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
"He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
"He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.
Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
"His troops come together And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances have completely turned away from me.
Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
"My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
"Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
Job 19:15
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore his favor with my mouth.
Job 19:16
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
"Even young children despise me; I stand up and they speak against me.
Job 19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
"All my associates loathe me, And those I love have turned against me.
Job 19:19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
"Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine, For the hand of God has struck me.
Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were recorded in a book!
Job 19:23
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
Job 19:24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
"Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last, He will take His stand on the earth.
Job 19:25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God,
Job 19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, And whom my eyes will see, and not another. My heart faints within me!
Job 19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
"If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?'
Job 19:28
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
"Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."
Job 19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
 
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