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class="reftext" id="Job.19.4" class="v18_19_4">4</span>Even if I have done wrong,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_4">how does that hurt you?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.5" class="v18_19_5">5</span>You think you are better than I am,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_5">and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.6" class="v18_19_6">6</span>Can't you see it is God who has done this?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_6">He has set a trap to catch me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.7" class="v18_19_7">7</span>I protest his violence,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_7">but no one is listening;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_7">no one hears my cry for justice.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.8" class="v18_19_8">8</span>God has blocked the way, and I can't get through;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_8">he has hidden my path in darkness.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.9" class="v18_19_9">9</span>He has taken away all my wealth</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_9">and destroyed my reputation.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.10" class="v18_19_10">10</span>He batters me from every side.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_10">He uproots my hope</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_10">and leaves me to wither and die.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.11" class="v18_19_11">11</span>God is angry and rages against me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_11">he treats me like his worst enemy.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.12" class="v18_19_12">12</span>He sends his army to attack me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_12">they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.13" class="v18_19_13">13</span>God has made my own family forsake me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_13">I am a stranger to those who knew me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.14" class="v18_19_14">14</span>my relatives and friends are gone.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.15" class="v18_19_15">15</span>Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_15">my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.16" class="v18_19_16">16</span>When I call a servant, he doesn't answer—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_16">even when I beg him to help me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.17" class="v18_19_17">17</span>My wife can't stand the smell of my breath,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_17">and my own brothers won't come near me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.18" class="v18_19_18">18</span>Children despise me and laugh when they see me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.19" class="v18_19_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.19.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> My closest friends look at me with disgust;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_19">those I loved most have turned against me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.20" class="v18_19_20">20</span>My skin hangs loose on my bones;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_20">I have barely escaped with my life.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.19.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.21" class="v18_19_21">21</span>You are my friends! Take pity on me!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_21">The hand of God has struck me down.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.22" class="v18_19_22">22</span>Why must you persecute me the way God does?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_22">Haven't you tormented me enough?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_23"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.23" class="v18_19_23">23</span>How I wish that someone would remember my words</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_23">and record them in a book!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_24"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.24" class="v18_19_24">24</span>Or with a chisel carve my words in stone</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_24">and write them so that they would last forever.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.19.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_25"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.25" class="v18_19_25">25</span>But I know there is someone in heaven</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_25">who will come at last to my defense.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_26"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.26" class="v18_19_26">26</span>Even after my skin is eaten by disease,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_26">while still in this body<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.19.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> I will see God.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.19.26!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_27"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.27" class="v18_19_27">27</span>I will see him with my own eyes,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_27">and he will not be a stranger.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_27">My courage failed because you said,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_28"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.28" class="v18_19_28">28</span>“How can we torment him?”</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_28">You looked for some excuse to attack me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_19_29"><span class="reftext" id="Job.19.29" class="v18_19_29">29</span>But now, be afraid of the sword—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_29">the sword that brings God's wrath on sin,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_19_29">so that you will know there is one who judges.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.19.29!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">19.20: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verse 20 in Hebrew is unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">19.24: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">last forever; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">be on record.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">19.26: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">while still in this body; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">although not in this body.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">19.26: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verse 26 in Hebrew is unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">19.29: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">one who judges; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a judgment.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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