Job 19

1Then Job answered,

2“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?Cross-references: Judg 16:16 · Job 8:2 · Job 18:2 · Job 27:2 · Ps 6:2 · Ps 13:1 · +9 more

3You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.Cross-references: Gen 31:7 · Gen 42:7 · Lev 26:26 · Num 14:22 · Neh 4:12 · Job 4:6 · +10 more

4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:17 · Job 11:3 · Prov 9:12 · Ezek 18:4 · 2Cor 5:10 · Gal 6:5

5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,Cross-references: 1Sam 1:6 · Neh 1:3 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 38:16 · Ps 41:11 · Ps 55:12 · +8 more

6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.Cross-references: Job 7:20 · Job 16:11 · Job 18:8 · Job 27:2 · Ps 44:9 · Ps 66:10 · +4 more

7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.Cross-references: Job 9:24 · Job 9:32 · Job 10:3 · Job 10:15 · Job 13:15 · Job 16:17 · +11 more

8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.Cross-references: Josh 24:7 · Job 3:23 · Job 30:26 · Ps 88:8 · Prov 4:19 · Isa 50:10 · +6 more

9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.Cross-references: Job 12:17 · Job 29:7 · Job 29:20 · Job 30:1 · Ps 49:16 · Ps 89:39 · +4 more

10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.Cross-references: Job 1:13 · Job 2:7 · Job 6:11 · Job 7:6 · Job 8:13 · Job 12:14 · +8 more

11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · Job 13:24 · Job 16:9 · Job 33:10 · Ps 89:46 · Ps 90:7 · +1 more

12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.Cross-references: Job 16:11 · Job 16:13 · Job 30:12 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 51:23

13“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.Cross-references: Job 6:21 · Job 16:7 · Ps 31:11 · Ps 38:11 · Ps 69:8 · Ps 69:20 · +4 more

14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.Cross-references: 2Sam 16:23 · Ps 38:11 · Ps 55:12 · Prov 18:24 · Jer 20:10 · Mic 7:5 · +2 more

15Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.Cross-references: Job 31:31 · Ps 123:3

16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.Cross-references: Job 1:15 · Job 1:19

17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.Cross-references: Job 2:9 · Job 17:1

18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.Cross-references: 2Ki 2:23 · Job 30:1 · Job 30:12 · Isa 3:5

19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.Cross-references: Job 6:14 · Ps 38:11 · Ps 41:9 · Ps 55:12 · Ps 55:20 · Ps 109:4 · +1 more

20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.Cross-references: Job 2:4 · Job 7:5 · Job 30:30 · Job 33:19 · Ps 22:14 · Ps 32:3 · +6 more

21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.Cross-references: Job 1:11 · Job 2:5 · Job 2:10 · Job 6:4 · Job 6:14 · Ps 38:2 · +3 more

22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?Cross-references: Job 2:5 · Job 10:16 · Job 13:25 · Job 16:11 · Job 16:13 · Job 31:31 · +3 more

23“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!Cross-references: Job 31:35 · Isa 8:1 · Isa 30:8

24That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!Cross-references: Ex 28:11 · Ex 28:21 · Ex 32:16 · Deut 27:2 · Deut 27:8 · Jer 17:1

25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Gen 22:18 · Job 16:19 · Job 33:23 · Ps 19:14 · Ps 78:35 · +8 more

26After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,Cross-references: Ps 16:9 · Ps 16:11 · Ps 17:15 · Matt 5:8 · 1Cor 13:12 · 1Cor 15:53 · +3 more

27whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.Cross-references: Num 24:17 · Ps 73:26 · Isa 26:19

28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,Cross-references: 1Ki 14:13 · Job 19:22 · Ps 69:26

29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”Cross-references: Job 13:7 · Job 15:22 · Job 22:4 · Ps 1:5 · Ps 9:7 · Ps 58:10 · +5 more