Job 19 Unlocked Literal Bible
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 Then Job answered and said,
1 Then Job answered,
2 “How long will you make me suffer and break me into pieces with words?
2 “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
3 These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have treated me harshly.
3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
4 If it is indeed true that I have erred, my error remains my own concern.
4 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5 If indeed you will exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
6 then you should know that God has done wrong to me and has caught me in his net.
6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
7 See, I cry out, “Violence!” but I get no answer. I call out for help, but there is no justice.
7 “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my path.
8 He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and he has taken the crown from my head.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; he has pulled up my hope 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 has also kindled his wrath against me; he regards me 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; they cast up siege mounds against me and encamp around my tent.
12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 He has put my brothers far from me; my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me.
13 “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed me; my close friends have forgotten me.
14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 Those who once stayed as guests in my house and my female servants regard me as 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 to my servant, but he gives me no answer although 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 offensive to my wife; I am even disgusting to those who were born from 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 rise to speak, they speak against me.
18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19 All my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I love have turned against me.
19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh; I survive only by 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, my friends, for the hand of God has 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 you pursue me like God does? Will you ever be 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 down! 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 Oh, that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at last he will stand on the earth;
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
26 after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed, then in my flesh I will see God.
26 After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
27 I will see him with my own eyes—I, and not someone else. My heart fails 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 you say, 'How we will persecute him! The root of his troubles lies in him,'
28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
29 then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you 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.
- 2 Psalm 6:2–3; Revelation 6:10; Psalm 42:10; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 55:21
- 3 Genesis 31:7; Daniel 1:20; Job 18:4–21; Job 15:11–12; Job 15:4–6
- 4 2 Corinthians 5:10; Ezekiel 18:4; Proverbs 9:12; Galatians 6:5; Job 11:3–6
- 5 Psalm 35:26; Psalm 55:12; Psalm 38:16; Zephaniah 2:10; Luke 1:25
- 6 Job 18:8–10; Job 27:2; Job 16:11–14; Job 7:20; Hosea 7:12
- 7 Habakkuk 1:2–3; Lamentations 3:8; Job 23:3–7; Job 40:8; Job 31:35–36
- 8 Job 3:23; Lamentations 3:7; Psalm 88:8; Lamentations 3:9; Proverbs 4:19
- 9 Psalm 89:44; Job 29:7–14; Psalm 89:39; Lamentations 5:16; Job 30:1
- 10 Job 24:20; Psalm 37:35–36; Job 12:14; 2 Corinthians 4:8–9; Job 2:7
- 11 Job 13:24; Job 33:10; Job 16:9; Psalm 89:46; Lamentations 2:5
- 12 Job 30:12; Job 16:13; Job 16:11; Isaiah 10:5–6; Isaiah 51:23
- 13 Psalm 88:8; Psalm 69:8; Psalm 88:18; Psalm 31:11; Psalm 69:20
- 14 Psalm 38:11; Matthew 10:21; Jeremiah 20:10; Proverbs 18:24; John 13:18
- 15 Psalm 123:3; Job 31:31–32
- 16 Job 1:15–17; Job 1:19
- 17 Job 2:9–10; Job 17:1
- 18 2 Kings 2:23; Job 30:12; Job 30:1; Isaiah 3:5
- 19 Psalm 41:9; Psalm 55:12–14; Psalm 109:4–5; Job 6:14–15; Psalm 38:11
- 20 Psalm 102:5; Lamentations 4:8; Job 33:19–22; Psalm 22:14–17; Job 2:4–6
- 21 Job 1:11; Psalm 38:2; Job 6:4; Romans 12:15; Hebrews 13:3
- 22 Psalm 69:26; Job 13:25; Job 31:31; Job 16:11; Micah 3:3
- 23 Isaiah 30:8; Job 31:35; Isaiah 8:1
- 24 Jeremiah 17:1; Exodus 32:16; Deuteronomy 27:2–3; Exodus 28:21; Exodus 28:11–12
- 25 Ephesians 1:7; Isaiah 54:5; Psalm 78:35; Psalm 19:14; Proverbs 23:11
- 26 Matthew 5:8; 1 John 3:2; Psalm 17:15; Revelation 1:7; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 27 Psalm 73:26; Isaiah 26:19; Numbers 24:17
- 28 Job 19:22; Psalm 69:26; 1 Kings 14:13
- 29 Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Job 13:7–11; Psalm 1:5; Matthew 7:1–2
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