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Job 19

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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 with only 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 that my Redeemer lives, [8] ⓚ and at the end he will stand on the dust. ⓛ

²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, [9] yet I will see God in [10] my flesh. ⓜ

²⁷ I will see him myself; my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger. [11] My heart longs [12] within me. ⓝ

²⁸ If you say, “How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?” [13]

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

#	CSB
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 with only 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 that my Redeemer lives, [8] ⓚ and at the end he will stand on the dust. ⓛ
26	Even after my skin has been destroyed, [9] yet I will see God in [10] my flesh. ⓜ
27	I will see him myself; my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger. [11] My heart longs [12] within me. ⓝ
28	If you say, “How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?” [13]
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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