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 10 times. Aren't you ashamed that you have [treated me so harshly?] |
If I have indeed erred, my errors [remain] with me. If it makes you [feel big & powerful to argue] against me [in my torment,] 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 & there's no [justice.] [God] 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.] |
His anger against me [has grown] & I am [considered like one of God's] enemies. His troops come together & [set up camp around my tent.] [God] has put my brethren far from me & acquaintances are [distanced] from me. |
My [relatives] have failed [to be supportive of me] & [close] friends have forgotten me. [Those who live] in [my] house & my maids [consider] me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. I called my servants, but he [didn't] answer me. |
My breath is strange to my wife [even though] I [begged on behalf of the] sake of the children [from] my own body. Young children [despise] me. I arose & they [spoke] against me. All my [close] friends are [disgusted by] me & [those] I love, 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 friend; 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.] |