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Job Chapter: 19

1: Job answered:

2: "How long are you going to keep battering away at me, pounding me with these harangues?

3: Time after time after time you jump all over me. Do you have no conscience, abusing me like this?

4: Even if I have, somehow or other, gotten off the track, what business is that of yours?

5: Why do you insist on putting me down, using my troubles as a stick to beat me?

6: Tell it to God--he's the one behind all this, he's the one who dragged me into this mess.

7: "Look at me--I shout "Murder!' and I'm ignored; I call for help and no one bothers to stop.

8: God threw a barricade across my path--I'm stymied; he turned out all the lights--I'm stuck in the dark.

9: He destroyed my reputation, robbed me of all self-respect.

10: He tore me apart piece by piece--I'm ruined! Then he yanked out hope by the roots.

11: He's angry with me--oh, how he's angry! He treats me like his worst enemy.

12: He has launched a major campaign against me, using every weapon he can think of, coming at me from all sides at once.

13: "God alienated my family from me;

14: everyone who knows me avoids me. My relatives and friends have all left; houseguests forget I ever existed.

15: The servant girls treat me like a bum off the street, look at me like they've never seen me before.

16: I call my attendant and he ignores me, ignores me even though I plead with him.

17: My wife can't stand to be around me anymore. I'm repulsive to my family.

18: Even street urchins despise me; when I come out, they taunt and jeer.

19: Everyone I've ever been close to abhors me; my dearest loved ones reject me.

20: I'm nothing but a bag of bones; my life hangs by a thread.

21: "Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me. God has come down hard on me!

22: Do you have to be hard on me too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?

23: "If only my words were written in a book--

24: better yet, chiseled in stone!

25: Still, I know that God lives--the One who gives me back my life--and eventually he'll take his stand on earth.

26: And I'll see him--even though I get skinned alive!-

27: see God myself, with my very own eyes. Oh, how I long for that day!

28: "If you're thinking, "How can we get through to him, get him to see that his trouble is all his own fault?'

29: Forget it. Start worrying about yourselves. Worry about your own sins and God's coming judgment, for judgment is most certainly on the way." HKZophar Attacks Job--The Second RoundHK Savoring Evil as a Delicacy

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