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Job 19

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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¹ Then Job answered:

² How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

³ You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat [1] me without shame. ⓐ

⁴ Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only [2] me.

⁵ If you really want to appear superior ⓑ to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

⁶ then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net. ⓒ

⁷ I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response; ⓓ I call for help, but there is no justice.

⁸ He has blocked ⓔ my way so that I cannot pass through; He has veiled my paths with darkness. ⓕ

⁹ He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. [3] He uproots my hope like a tree. ⓖ

¹¹ His anger ⓗ burns against me, and He regards me as one of His enemies. ⓘ

¹² His troops advance together; they construct a ramp [4] against me and camp ⓙ around my tent.

¹³ He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. ⓚ

¹⁴ My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ My house guests [5] and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. ⓛ

¹⁶ I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth.

¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family [6] finds me repulsive.

¹⁸ Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me. ⓜ

¹⁹ All of my best friends [7] despise me, ⓝ and those I love have turned against me. ⓞ

²⁰ My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have mercy on me, my friends, ⓟ have mercy, for God’s hand ⓠ has struck me. ⓡ

²² Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

²³ I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll

²⁴ or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!

²⁵ But I know my living Redeemer, [8] ⓢ and He will stand on the dust [9] at last. [10] ⓣ

²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, [11] yet I will see God in [12] my flesh. ⓤ

²⁷ I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger. [13] My heart longs [14] within me. ⓥ

²⁸ If you say, “How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?” [15]

²⁹ then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, ⓦ so that you may know there is a judgment.

#	HCSB
1	Then Job answered:
2	How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
3	You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat [1] me without shame. ⓐ
4	Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only [2] me.
5	If you really want to appear superior ⓑ to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
6	then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net. ⓒ
7	I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response; ⓓ I call for help, but there is no justice.
8	He has blocked ⓔ my way so that I cannot pass through; He has veiled my paths with darkness. ⓕ
9	He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10	He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. [3] He uproots my hope like a tree. ⓖ
11	His anger ⓗ burns against me, and He regards me as one of His enemies. ⓘ
12	His troops advance together; they construct a ramp [4] against me and camp ⓙ around my tent.
13	He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. ⓚ
14	My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.
15	My house guests [5] and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. ⓛ
16	I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth.
17	My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family [6] finds me repulsive.
18	Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me. ⓜ
19	All of my best friends [7] despise me, ⓝ and those I love have turned against me. ⓞ
20	My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21	Have mercy on me, my friends, ⓟ have mercy, for God’s hand ⓠ has struck me. ⓡ
22	Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23	I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll
24	or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!
25	But I know my living Redeemer, [8] ⓢ and He will stand on the dust [9] at last. [10] ⓣ
26	Even after my skin has been destroyed, [11] yet I will see God in [12] my flesh. ⓤ
27	I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger. [13] My heart longs [14] within me. ⓥ
28	If you say, “How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?” [15]
29	then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, ⓦ so that you may know there is a judgment.

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^{Job 19:20 [24]} Or only by my gums

^{Job 19:24 [25]} Or and

^{Job 19:25 [26]} Or vindicator

^{Job 19:25 [27]} Or on my grave

^{Job 19:26 [28]} Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then

^{Job 19:26 [29]} Or destroyed, / apart from

^{Job 19:28 [30]} Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me

^{Job 19:29 [31]} Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty

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