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Job 19:1-29 — Job's Reply to Bildad
Job.19.1-29
1Then Job answered and said: 2"How long will you torment my soul, and crush me with words? 3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you mistreat me. 4And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me. 5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and use my disgrace to argue against me, 6know then that God has wronged me, and has surrounded me with his net. 7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. 8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. 9He has stripped my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. 10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; and he has uprooted my hope like a tree. 11He has kindled his anger against me, and he counts me as one of his adversaries. 12His troops come together, and build up their siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. 13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. 14My relatives have failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15The guests in my house and my maidservants regard me as a stranger; I am an outsider in their sight. 16I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must plead with him with my own mouth. 17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my own mother . 18Even young children despise me; when I arise, they speak against me. 19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. 20My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth . 21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me! 22Why do you persecute me like God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23Oh, that my words were written down! Oh, that they were inscribed in a scroll! 24That with an iron stylus and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! 25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God, 27whom I myself shall see on my side, and my own eyes shall behold, and not a stranger. My heart faints within me! 28If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' and that the root of the matter is found in me, 29be afraid of the sword , for wrath brings the punishment of the sword for sins, so that you may know there is a judgment."
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4/11/2026
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