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href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“How long will you torment me</p><p class="line2">and crush me with words?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Ten times now you have reproached me;</p><p class="line2">shamelessly you attack me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If it is true that I have gone astray,</p><p class="line2">my error remains my concern alone.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me</p><p class="line2">and use my humiliation against me,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>then know that God has wronged me</p><p class="line2">and drawn his net around me.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;</p><p class="line2">though I call for help, there is no justice.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;</p><p class="line2">he has shrouded my paths in darkness.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He has stripped me of my honor</p><p class="line2">and removed the crown from my head.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He tears me down on every side till I am gone;</p><p class="line2">he uproots my hope like a tree.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His anger burns against me;</p><p class="line2">he counts me among his enemies.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His troops advance in force;</p><p class="line2">they build a siege ramp against me</p><p class="line2">and encamp around my tent.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“He has alienated my family from me;</p><p class="line2">my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My relatives have gone away;</p><p class="line2">my closest friends have forgotten me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;</p><p class="line2">they look on me as on a stranger.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I summon my servant, but he does not answer,</p><p class="line2">though I beg him with my own mouth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My breath is offensive to my wife;</p><p class="line2">I am loathsome to my own family.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Even the little boys scorn me;</p><p class="line2">when I appear, they ridicule me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All my intimate friends detest me;</p><p class="line2">those I love have turned against me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I am nothing but skin and bones;</p><p class="line2">I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or only by my gums">a</a></sup></span> </p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,</p><p class="line2">for the hand of God has struck me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Why do you pursue me as God does?</p><p class="line2">Will you never get enough of my flesh?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“Oh, that my words were recorded,</p><p class="line2">that they were written on a scroll,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>that they were inscribed with an iron tool on <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and">b</a></sup></span> lead,</p><p class="line2">or engraved in rock forever!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I know that my redeemer <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or vindicator">c</a></sup></span> lives,</p><p class="line2">and that in the end he will stand on the earth. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or on my grave">d</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And after my skin has been destroyed,</p><p class="line2">yet <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or And after I awake, though this body has been destroyed, then">e</a></sup></span> in <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or destroyed, apart from">f</a></sup></span> my flesh I will see God;</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I myself will see him</p><p class="line2">with my own eyes—I, and not another.</p><p class="line2">How my heart yearns within me!</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“If you say, ‘How we will hound him,</p><p class="line2">since the root of the trouble lies in him, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me">g</a></sup></span> ’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>you should fear the sword yourselves;</p><p class="line2">for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,</p><p class="line2">and then you will know that there is judgment. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or sword, that you may come to know the Almighty">h</a></sup></span> ”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>only by my gums</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>and</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>vindicator</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>on my grave</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>And after I awake,<br />     though this body has been destroyed,<br />     then</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>destroyed,<br />     apart from</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotebot">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts <i>me</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>sword,<br />     that you may come to know the Almighty</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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