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Job 19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Job Feels Insulted

19 Then Job responded,

²“How long will you torment ^[a]me
And crush me with words?
³These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
⁴Even if I have truly done wrong,
My error stays with me.
⁵If indeed you ^(A)exalt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
⁶Know then that ^(B)God has wronged me
And has surrounded me with ^(C)His net.

Everything Is Against Him

⁷“Behold, ^(D)I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
⁸He has ^(E)blocked my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put ^(F)darkness on my paths.
⁹He has ^(G)stripped my honor from me
And removed the ^(H)crown from my head.
¹⁰He ^(I)breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my ^(J)hope ^(K)like a tree.
¹¹He has also ^(L)kindled His anger against me
And ^(M)considered me as His enemy.
¹²His ^(N)troops come together
And ^(O)build up their ^[b]way against me
And camp around my tent.

¹³“He has ^(P)removed my brothers far from me,
And my ^(Q)acquaintances have completely turned away from me.
¹⁴My relatives have failed,
And my ^(R)close friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.
¹⁶I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore his favor with my mouth.
¹⁷My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
¹⁸Even young children despise me;
I stand up and they speak against me.
¹⁹All ^[c]my ^(S)associates loathe me,
And those I love have turned against me.
²⁰My ^(T)bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
²¹Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine,
For the ^(U)hand of God has struck me.
²²Why do you ^(V)persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says My Redeemer Lives

²³“Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were ^(W)recorded in a book!
²⁴That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
²⁵Yet as for me, I know that ^(X)my Redeemer lives,
And at the last, He will take His stand on the ^[d]earth.
²⁶Even after my skin ^[e]is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I will ^(Y)see God,
²⁷Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself,
And whom my eyes will see, and not another.
My ^[f]heart ^(Z)faints ^[g]within me!
²⁸If you say, ‘How shall we ^(AA)persecute him?’
And ‘^[h]What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
²⁹Then be afraid of ^(AB)the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know ^(AC)there is judgment.”

New American Standard Bible (NASB)