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Job's Lament, Isolation, and Declaration of Hope

Job 19:1-29

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Chapter 19
1 Then Job responded and said: 2 How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words? 3 You have disgraced me ten times; you are not ashamed to deal insolently with me. 4 Indeed, I have even erred—my error remains with me. 5 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and rebuke me for my reproach. 6 Know then that God has wronged me and closed his net around me. 7 Look, I cry out, "Violence!" but I am not answered; I cry for help, but there is no justice. 8 He has walled up my way so I cannot pass, and he has set darkness on my paths. 9 He has stripped my glory from me and removed the crown from my head. 10 He tears me down on all sides, and I perish; he uproots my hope like a tree. 11 His anger burned against me, and he counts me as his enemy. 12 Together his troops come and make their way straight against me, and they encamp all around my tent. 13 My brothers have kept far from me, and my acquaintances are estranged from me. 14 My close relatives have ceased, and my acquaintances have forgotten me. 15 My guests and my maidservants consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I beg him with my own mouth. 17 My breath is foreign to my wife, and my favors to the children of my womb. 18 Even nursing infants reject me; I stand up, and they speak against me. 19 My abominations—all my death ones of my secret council and these my loved ones—have turned against me. 20 My bone has clung to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. 22 Why do you pursue me as God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23 Who will give it—his nostril—and they write my words? Who will give it in a book and they engrave? 24 With an iron stylus and lead, forever on rock, they will engrave. 25 And I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will arise over the dust. 26 And after my skin they have stripped this off, and from my flesh I will behold God. 27 whom I will behold for myself, and my eyes will see, and not a stranger. All of it I have consumed in my statute. 28 For you will say, "What is pursued for him?" and a root of the matter is found in me. 29 Sojourn for yourselves from before cut off, for wrath of iniquities cut off, in order that you know skilled knowledge Breast.