Job 19 - Amplified Bible (AMP)

Job Feels Insulted

19 Then Job answered and said,

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“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?
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“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].
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“And if it were true that I have erred,
My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].
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“If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me
And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,
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Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me
And has closed His net around me.

Everything Is Against Him

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“Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
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“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.
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“He has stripped me of my honor
And removed the crown from my head.
10
“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
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“He has also kindled His wrath [like a fire] against me
And He considers and counts me as one of His adversaries.
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“His troops come together
And build up their way and siege works against me
And camp around my tent.

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“He has put my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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“My relatives have failed [me],
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
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“Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.
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“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with words.
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“My breath is repulsive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
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“Even young children despise me;
When I get up, they speak against me.
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“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.
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“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.
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“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.
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“Why do you persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

Job Says, “My Redeemer Lives”

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“Oh, that the words I now speak were written!
Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!
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“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
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“For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives,
And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.(A)
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“Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death],
Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,
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Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.
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“If you say, ‘How shall we [continue to] persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?’
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Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance] for yourselves,
For wrathful are the punishments of that sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”

Cross references

  1. Job 19:25 : Is 44:6; 48:12

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