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<A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Ten times now you have reproached me; <p class="indent2"> you shamelessly mistreat me. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Even if I have truly gone astray, <p class="indent2"> my error concerns me alone. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me <p class="indent2"> and use my disgrace against me, <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>then understand that it is God who has wronged me <p class="indent2"> and drawn His net around me. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; <p class="indent2"> though I call for help, there is no justice. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; <p class="indent2"> He has veiled my paths with darkness. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He has stripped me of my honor <p class="indent2"> and removed the crown from my head. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He tears me down on every side until I am gone; <p class="indent2"> He uproots my hope like a tree. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His anger burns against me, <p class="indent2"> and He counts me among His enemies. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His troops advance together; <p class="indent2"> they construct a ramp against me <p class="indent2"> and encamp around my tent. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He has removed my brothers from me; <p class="indent2"> my acquaintances have abandoned me. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My kinsmen have failed me, <p class="indent2"> and my friends have forgotten me. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; <p class="indent2"> I am a foreigner in their sight. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I call for my servant, but he does not answer, <p class="indent2"> though I implore him with my own mouth. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My breath is repulsive to my wife, <p class="indent2"> and I am loathsome to my own family. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Even little boys scorn me; <p class="indent2"> when I appear, they deride me. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All my best friends despise me, <p class="indent2"> and those I love have turned against me. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My skin and flesh cling to my bones; <p class="indent2"> I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, <p class="indent2"> for the hand of God has struck me. <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Why do you persecute me as God does? <p class="indent2"> Will you never get enough of my flesh? <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I wish that my words were recorded <p class="indent2"> and inscribed in a book, <A name="25"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>by an iron stylus on lead, <p class="indent2"> or chiseled in stone forever. <A name="26"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But I know that my Redeemer<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> lives, <p class="indent2"> and in the end He will stand upon the earth.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="27"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Even after my skin has been destroyed, <p class="indent2"> yet in my flesh<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> I will see God. <A name="28"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I will see Him for myself; <p class="indent2"> my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. <p class="indent2"> How my heart yearns<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> within me! <A name="29"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, <p class="indent2"> since the root of the matter lies with him,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span>’ <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>then you should fear the sword yourselves, <p class="indent2"> because wrath brings punishment by the sword, <p class="indent2"> so that you may know there is a judgment.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>Vindicator</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>on my grave</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>without my flesh</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Hebrew <i>my kidneys yearn</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Many Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts <i>with me</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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