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title="Job 18">◄</a> Job 19 <a href="../job/20.htm" title="Job 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“How long will you torment me</span><br /><span class="indent">and break me in pieces with words?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;</span><br /><span class="indent">are you not ashamed to wrong me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And even if it be true that I have erred,</span><br /><span class="indent">my error remains with myself.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If indeed you magnify yourselves against me</span><br /><span class="indent">and make my disgrace an argument against me,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">know then that God has put me in the wrong</span><br /><span class="indent">and closed his net about me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;</span><br /><span class="indent">I call for help, but there is no justice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he has set darkness upon my paths.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has stripped from me my glory</span><br /><span class="indent">and taken the crown from my head.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has kindled his wrath against me</span><br /><span class="indent">and counts me as his adversary.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His troops come on together;</span><br /><span class="indent">they have cast up their siege ramp<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew their way">a</a></sup></span> against me</span><br /><span class="indent">and encamp around my tent.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“He has put my brothers far from me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My relatives have failed me,</span><br /><span class="indent">my close friends have forgotten me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;</span><br /><span class="indent">I have become a foreigner in their eyes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;</span><br /><span class="indent">I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My breath is strange to my wife,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Even young children despise me;</span><br /><span class="indent">when I rise they talk against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All my intimate friends abhor me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and those whom I loved have turned against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the hand of God has touched me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why do you, like God, pursue me?</span><br /><span class="indent">Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Oh that my words were written!</span><br /><span class="indent">Oh that they were inscribed in a book!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Oh that with an iron pen and lead</span><br /><span class="indent">they were engraved in the rock forever!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I know that my Redeemer lives,</span><br /><span class="indent">and at the last he will stand upon the earth.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew dust">b</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And after my skin has been thus destroyed,</span><br /><span class="indent">yet in<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or without">c</a></sup></span> my flesh I shall see God,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">whom I shall see for myself,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my eyes shall behold, and not another.</span><br /><span class="indent">My heart faints within me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’</span><br /><span class="indent">and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Many Hebrew manuscripts in me">d</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">be afraid of the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent">for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent">that you may know there is a judgment.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">their</span> way</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Hebrew <i>dust</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i>without</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Many Hebrew manuscripts <i>in me</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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