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    Job · 29 verses

    Job 19

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    Job's breath is repulsive to his wife, while he escapes by the skin of his teeth.

    A net around Jobvv. 1–22

    Job answers the reproaches with a question of his own: how long must words torment and crush him? He says the number is ten, though the chapter supplies none of the occasions, and insists that even a real error would concern him alone. Then the complaint widens into a catalogue of abandonment. God has blocked his way, stripped his honour, uprooted his hope, and encamped around his tent; brothers, acquaintances, kinsmen, friends, guests, maidservants, servant, wife, family, little boys, and the people he loves have all become part of the desolation. In the middle of it comes the wonderfully exact remnant: “My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”

    Words cut into permanencevv. 23–27

    Job wishes his words could be recorded—not merely written, but fixed with an iron stylus on lead or chiselled in stone forever. The lament then turns sharply: he knows that his Redeemer lives and that, in the end, He will stand upon the earth. Job says he will see God for himself, with his own eyes, not as a stranger; the sentence ends with a heart that yearns within him.

    The sword for the persecutorsvv. 28–29

    Job turns back to the people who would say that the root of the matter lies with him. If they continue to persecute him, he says, they should fear the sword themselves: wrath brings punishment by the sword, and judgment is not absent merely because Job has been left in the dark.

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    1. Job 19:1Then Job answered:

    2. Job 19:2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

    3. Job 19:3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

    4. Job 19:4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

    5. Job 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

    6. Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

    7. Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

    8. Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

    9. Job 19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

    10. Job 19:10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

    11. Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

    12. Job 19:12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

    13. Job 19:13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

    14. Job 19:14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

    15. Job 19:15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

    16. Job 19:16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

    17. Job 19:17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

    18. Job 19:18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

    19. Job 19:19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

    20. Job 19:20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

    21. Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

    22. Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

    23. Job 19:23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

    24. Job 19:24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

    25. Job 19:25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

    26. Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

    27. Job 19:27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

    28. Job 19:28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

    29. Job 19:29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

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    • 25Ephesians 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
    • 25Isaiah 54:5For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
    • 25Psalms 78:35And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
    • 25Proverbs 23:11for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
    • 25Psalms 19:14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
    • 25John 5:22–29Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
    • 25Isaiah 59:20–21“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.
    • 26Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
    • 25Jeremiah 50:34Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
    • 25Isaiah 43:14Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
    • 25Job 16:19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
    • 261 John 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
    • 26Psalms 17:15As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
    • 25Jude 1:14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
    • 261 Corinthians 13:12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
    • 26Revelation 1:7Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.

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