Brendaonline.com19 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Words can hurt. Anyone who speaks to a man that already down does not represent God.
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
You have spoken several times of what I have done wrong without evidence. Are you not ashamed of how you talk about me? Do you have any remorse?
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Even if I have wrong someone, it is my business.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
What hurts me the most is not what you say, it is God who I do not understand in all this.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
I cry out of hurt. I am not saying that what I say is right, I am saying that what I say is how I feel, yet I have no one to come to my aid to tell me what I have done wrong.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job speaks of how he is being treated by kin and neighbors. Job says only God can cause people to treat me this way. Many times we blame God for the misbehavior of people. We want God to control how people treat us. However, God gave us authority in how we are to treat others and how we behave in those bad times. God does not want people to perish. If he stopped everyone who did evil against us, we would all die. God gives us space to come to ourselves so that he does not have to destroy us.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job begs his friends to give him a break. A friend asks a friend to have mercy on him or her. Wow! You would think because we are friends this should not be happening. But it is.
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Job request has been made. We are reading about it now.
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
When Job speaks right, he prophesies.
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
If I die I will see God.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job said you should be saying, whatever the problem is, Job is the only one involved. Let us leave him alone.
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
If you continue to speak to me as you do, God will judge you accordingly.
Sing or Say Job 19
I have told you no
And still, you want more
There is nothing else left in me
What I said at first
I say again
No wrong have I done
Is my defense
Where is God?
I can’t comprehend it.
All I can say
There is an answer
And God will vindicate.
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