Job 19 — Legacy Standard Bible

My Redeemer Lives

19Then Job answered and said,

²“How long will you torment my soulAnd crush me with words?³“These ten times you have dishonored me;You are not ashamed that you wrong me.⁴“¹Even if I have truly erred,My error lodges with me.⁵“If truly you ^amagnify yourselves against meAnd argue my disgrace to me,⁶Know then that ^aGod has wronged meAnd has closed ^bHis net around me.⁷“Behold, ^aI cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;I shout for help, but there is no justice.⁸“He has ^awalled up my way so that I cannot pass,And He has put ^bdarkness on my paths.⁹“He has ^astripped my honor from meAnd removed the ^bcrown from my head.¹⁰“He ^abreaks me down on every side, and I am gone;And He has uprooted my ^bhope ^clike a tree.¹¹“He has also ^akindled His anger against meAnd ^bcounted me as His adversary.¹²“His ^atroops come together,And ^bbuild up their ¹way against meAnd camp around my tent.¹³“He has ^aremoved my brothers far from me,And my ^bacquaintances are completely estranged from me.¹⁴“My relatives have failed,And my ^afamiliar friends have forgotten me.¹⁵“Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count me a stranger.I am a foreigner in their sight.¹⁶“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;I have to implore him with my mouth.¹⁷“My breath is ¹offensive to my wife,And I am loathsome to my own brothers.¹⁸“Even young children reject me;I rise up, and they speak against me.¹⁹“All the men of my ^acounsel abhor me,And those I love have turned against me.²⁰“My ^abone clings to my skin and my flesh,And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.²¹“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,For the ^ahand of God has smitten me.²²“Why do you ^apersecute me as God does,And are not satisfied with my flesh?²³“Oh that my words were written!Oh that they were ^ainscribed in a book!²⁴“That with an iron stylus and leadThey were engraved in the rock forever!²⁵“As for me, I know that ^amy ¹Redeemer lives,And ²at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world.²⁶“Even after my skin ¹is destroyed,Yet from my flesh I shall ^abehold God,²⁷Whom I ¹myself shall behold,And whom my eyes will see and not another.My ²heart ^afaints ³within me!²⁸“If you say, ‘How shall we ^apersecute him?’‘And the root of the matter is found in ¹him?’²⁹“Then be afraid of ^athe sword for yourselves,For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,So that you may know ^bthere is judgment.”