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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/19.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job Trusts in His Redeemer</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-19-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“How long will you torment my soul,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-2">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>These ten times you have <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>reproached me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-3">You are not ashamed <i>that</i> you <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>have wronged me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And if indeed I have erred,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-4">My error remains with me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If indeed you exalt <i>yourselves</i> against me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-5">And plead my disgrace against me,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Know then that God has wronged me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-6">And has surrounded me with His net.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“If I cry out concerning <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>wrong, I am not heard.</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-7">If I cry aloud, <i>there is</i> no justice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He has <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-8">And He has set darkness in my paths.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He has stripped me of my glory,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-9">And taken the crown <i>from</i> my head.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He breaks me down on every side,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-10">And I am gone;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-10">My hope He has uprooted like a tree.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He has also kindled His wrath against me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-11">And He counts me as <i>one of</i> His enemies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His troops come together</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-12">And build up their road against me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-12">They encamp all around my tent.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“He has removed my brothers far from me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-13">And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My relatives have failed,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-14">And 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>Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-15">Count me as a stranger;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-15">I am an alien in their sight.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I call my servant, but he gives no answer;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-16">I beg him with my mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My breath is offensive to my wife,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-17">And I am <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>repulsive to the children of my own body.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Even young children despise me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-18">I arise, and they speak against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All my close friends abhor me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-19">And those whom I love have turned against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-20">And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-21">For the hand of God has struck me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Why do you persecute me as God <i>does,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-19-22">And are not satisfied with my flesh?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“Oh, that my words were written!</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-23">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>That they were engraved on a rock</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-24">With an iron pen and lead, forever!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For I know <i>that</i> my Redeemer lives,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-25">And He shall stand at last on the earth;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And after my skin is <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>destroyed, this <i>I know,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-19-26">That in 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>Whom I shall see for myself,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-27">And my eyes shall behold, and not another.</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-27"><i>How</i> my <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>heart yearns within me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’—</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-28">Since the root of the matter is found in me,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-29">For wrath <i>brings</i> the punishment of the sword,</span><br /><span class="text Job-19-29">That you may know <i>there is</i> a judgment.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13301a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 19:3">Job 19:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>shamed</i> or <i>disgraced</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13301b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 19:3">Job 19:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A Jewish tradition <i>make yourselves strange to me</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13305c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 19:7">Job 19:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>violence</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13306d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 19:8">Job 19:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>walled off my way</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13315e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 19:17">Job 19:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>strange</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13324f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 19:26">Job 19:26</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>struck off</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13325g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 19:27">Job 19:27</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>kidneys</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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