Day 599 of 939
JOB 19
JOB 19 · PSA 111
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JOB 19
1Then Job answered: 2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? 3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me. 4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone. 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me, 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. 7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. 10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree. 11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies. 12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent. 13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. 14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. 15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth. 17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family. 18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me. 19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me. 20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. 22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? 23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book, 24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever. 25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. 27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me! 28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him, ’ 29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
Secondary reading — PSA 111
1Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly. 2Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them. 3Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever. 4He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate. 5He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever. 6He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations. 7The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy. 8They are upheld forever and ever, enacted in truth and uprightness. 9He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name. 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!