Job Answers Bildad's Arguments |
Job 19:1-29 Book of Job [in Smaller Chunks] |
Then, Job answered & said, How long will you [trouble] my soul & [tear] me to pieces with [your] words? You have [argued] with me these 10 times. You aren't ashamed that you have [treated me so harshly.] |
And if I have indeed erred, [my errors remain] with [me.] If you will indeed magnify yourselves against me & plead my [disgrace] against me, know now that the [Lord] God has overthrown me & [surrounded] me with His net. |
[Look,] I cry out of wrong [doing,] but I'm not heard. I cry aloud, but there's no [justice.] [God] has fenced up my [road, so] that I can’t pass & He has [put] darkness in my paths. He has stripped me of my glory & has taken the crown from my head. He has destroyed me on every side & I'm gone. He has removed my hope, like a tree [is removed.] |
He has also kindled His anger against me & [God considers] me [like] one of His enemies. His troops come together & raise up their [embankment] against me & [set up camp around my tent.] [God] has put my brethren far from me & [my] acquaintances are [truly distanced] from me. |
My [relatives] have failed [to be supportive of me] & my [close] friends have forgotten me. [Those who live] in [my] house & my maids [consider] me a stranger. I am an [foreigner] in their sight. I called my servant with my mouth, [but] he [didn't] answer me. |
My breath is strange to my wife [even though] I [begged on behalf] for the children’s sake [from my] own body. [Yes,] young children [despise] me. I arose & they [spoke] against me. All my [close] friends are [disgusted by] me & [those] whom I loved, [have] turned against me. |
My [bones cling] to my flesh & skin. I [have] escaped [by] the skin of my teeth. Have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. Have pity on me. Why do you persecute me & aren't satisfied with my flesh, [like] God? |
Oh, that my words were [already] written & were printed in a book! That they were [engraved] with an iron pen [with] lead [like ink] in the rock forever! |
* For I know that my Redeemer lives & that He shall stand [on the Last] Day upon the earth, [even] though [it's] after the worms destroy this body. Yet, in my flesh, I shall see God; Whom I shall see for myself. |
[Revelation 21:6-7 And He said to me, It is done. I am [the] Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to him [who is thirsty from] the fountain of the Water of Life freely. He [who] overcomes shall inherit all things & I will be his God & he shall be [like] My Son.] |
Any [my] eyes shall & [see God] & not another, [although my heart strings are destroyed] within me. But you should say, Why [do] we persecute him, seeing [that] the [cause] of the [problem] is found in me? |
[You should] be afraid of the sword. For [fury] brings the sword of [punishment, so] you may know there is [justice.] |