en_cjb - Job 19 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Then Iyov answered:

² “How long will you go on making me angry, crushing me with words?

³ You’ve insulted me ten times already; aren’t you ashamed to treat me so badly?

⁴ Even if it’s true that I made a mistake, my error stays with me.

⁵ “You may take a superior attitude toward me and cite my disgrace as proof against me;

⁶ but know that it’s God who has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

⁷ If I cry, ‘Violence!’ no one hears me; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

⁸ “He has fenced off my way, so that I can’t pass; he has covered my paths with darkness.

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

¹⁰ He tears every part of me down — I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

¹¹ “Inflamed with anger against me, he counts me as one of his foes.

¹² His troops advance together, they make their way against me and encamp around my tent.

¹³ “He has made my brothers keep their distance, those who know me are wholly estranged from me,

¹⁴ my kinsfolk have failed me, and my close friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ Those living in my house consider me a stranger; my slave-girls too — in their view I’m a foreigner.

¹⁶ I call my servant, and he doesn’t answer, even if I beg him for a favor!

¹⁷ “My wife can’t stand my breath, I am loathsome to my own family.

¹⁸ Even young children despise me — if I stand up, they start jeering at me.

¹⁹ All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.

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

²¹ “Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!

²² Must you pursue me as God does, never satisfied with my flesh?

²³ I wish my words were written down, that they were inscribed in a scroll,

²⁴ that, engraved with iron and filled with lead, they were cut into rock forever!

²⁵ “But I know that my Redeemer lives, that in the end he will rise on the dust;

²⁶ so that after my skin has been thus destroyed, then even without my flesh, I will see God.

²⁷ I will see him for myself, my eyes, not someone else’s, will behold him. My heart grows weak inside me!

²⁸ “If you say, ‘How will we persecute him?’ — the root of the matter is found in me.

²⁹ You had best fear the sword, for anger brings the punishment of the sword, so that you will know there is judgment!”