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Job 19 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant, with the Apocrypha
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1895
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RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Then Job answered and said,
1 Then Job answered,
2 How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
2 “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
4 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
6 Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], and hath compassed me with his net.
6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no judgment.
7 “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and hath set darkness in my paths.
8 He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of ]his adversaries.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
12 His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
13 “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [though ]I entreat him with my mouth.
16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the children of my [mother’s ]womb.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18 Even young children despise me; if I arise, they speak against me.
18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19 All my inward friends abhor me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
21 “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
23 “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25 But I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand up at the last upon the earth:
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
26 And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, yet from my flesh shall I see God:
26 After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. My reins are consumed within me.
27 whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;
28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth ]the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
29 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
Cross references (28)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Psalm 6:2–3; Revelation 6:10; Psalm 42:10; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 55:21
  2. 3 Genesis 31:7; Daniel 1:20; Job 18:4–21; Job 15:11–12; Job 15:4–6
  3. 4 2 Corinthians 5:10; Ezekiel 18:4; Proverbs 9:12; Galatians 6:5; Job 11:3–6
  4. 5 Psalm 35:26; Psalm 55:12; Psalm 38:16; Zephaniah 2:10; Luke 1:25
  5. 6 Job 18:8–10; Job 27:2; Job 16:11–14; Job 7:20; Hosea 7:12
  6. 7 Habakkuk 1:2–3; Lamentations 3:8; Job 23:3–7; Job 40:8; Job 31:35–36
  7. 8 Job 3:23; Lamentations 3:7; Psalm 88:8; Lamentations 3:9; Proverbs 4:19
  8. 9 Psalm 89:44; Job 29:7–14; Psalm 89:39; Lamentations 5:16; Job 30:1
  9. 10 Job 24:20; Psalm 37:35–36; Job 12:14; 2 Corinthians 4:8–9; Job 2:7
  10. 11 Job 13:24; Job 33:10; Job 16:9; Psalm 89:46; Lamentations 2:5
  11. 12 Job 30:12; Job 16:13; Job 16:11; Isaiah 10:5–6; Isaiah 51:23
  12. 13 Psalm 88:8; Psalm 69:8; Psalm 88:18; Psalm 31:11; Psalm 69:20
  13. 14 Psalm 38:11; Matthew 10:21; Jeremiah 20:10; Proverbs 18:24; John 13:18
  14. 15 Psalm 123:3; Job 31:31–32
  15. 16 Job 1:15–17; Job 1:19
  16. 17 Job 2:9–10; Job 17:1
  17. 18 2 Kings 2:23; Job 30:12; Job 30:1; Isaiah 3:5
  18. 19 Psalm 41:9; Psalm 55:12–14; Psalm 109:4–5; Job 6:14–15; Psalm 38:11
  19. 20 Psalm 102:5; Lamentations 4:8; Job 33:19–22; Psalm 22:14–17; Job 2:4–6
  20. 21 Job 1:11; Psalm 38:2; Job 6:4; Romans 12:15; Hebrews 13:3
  21. 22 Psalm 69:26; Job 13:25; Job 31:31; Job 16:11; Micah 3:3
  22. 23 Isaiah 30:8; Job 31:35; Isaiah 8:1
  23. 24 Jeremiah 17:1; Exodus 32:16; Deuteronomy 27:2–3; Exodus 28:21; Exodus 28:11–12
  24. 25 Ephesians 1:7; Isaiah 54:5; Psalm 78:35; Psalm 19:14; Proverbs 23:11
  25. 26 Matthew 5:8; 1 John 3:2; Psalm 17:15; Revelation 1:7; 1 Corinthians 13:12
  26. 27 Psalm 73:26; Isaiah 26:19; Numbers 24:17
  27. 28 Job 19:22; Psalm 69:26; 1 Kings 14:13
  28. 29 Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Job 13:7–11; Psalm 1:5; Matthew 7:1–2

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences