Thematic Bible




Job 19:1 (show verse)

Then Job answered and said,

Job 19:2 (show verse)


“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?

Job 19:3 (show verse)


“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].

Job 19:4 (show verse)


“And if it were true that I have erred,
My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].

Job 19:5 (show verse)


“If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me
And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,

Job 19:6 (show verse)


Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me
And has closed His net around me.

Job 19:7 (show verse)


“Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8 (show verse)


“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 19:9 (show verse)


“He has stripped me of my honor
And removed the crown from my head.

Job 19:10 (show verse)


“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 19:11 (show verse)


“He has also kindled His wrath [like a fire] against me
And He considers and counts me as one of His adversaries.

Job 19:12 (show verse)


“His troops come together
And build up their way and siege works against me
And camp around my tent.

Job 19:13 (show verse)


“He has put my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Job 19:14 (show verse)


“My relatives have failed [me],
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15 (show verse)


“Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Job 19:16 (show verse)


“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with words.

Job 19:17 (show verse)


“My breath is repulsive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

Job 19:18 (show verse)


“Even young children despise me;
When I get up, they speak against me.

Job 19:19 (show verse)


“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.

Job 19:20 (show verse)


“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21 (show verse)


“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.

Job 19:22 (show verse)


“Why do you persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

Job 19:23 (show verse)


“Oh, that the words I now speak were written!
Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!

Job 19:24 (show verse)


“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!

Job 19:25 (show verse)


“For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives,
And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.

Job 19:26 (show verse)


“Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death],
Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,

Job 19:27 (show verse)


Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.

Job 19:28 (show verse)


“If you say, ‘How shall we [continue to] persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?’
No Themes for this verse.

Job 19:29 (show verse)


“Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance] for yourselves,
For wrathful are the punishments of that sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”
No Themes for this verse.