Job 19

Job 19:3

These ten times have ye reproached me.

We have had ten several interlocutions, wherein you have most uncharitably and cruelly reproached me; ye have cast many and frequent aspersions of hypocrisy and wickedness upon mine innocence.

Job 19:6

Know now that God hath overthrown me.

If I be (as I am) most miserable; alas! you should have considered, that it is God’s hand that hath cast me down, which is both holy and irresistible.

Job 19:15

My maids count me for a stranger.

My very maid-servants look strangely and overlie upon me, as if I were not their master: the very meanest of my family slight and neglect me.

Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated her for the children’s sake of mine own body.

My wife, as she was ready to add unto my trial by her ill counsel, so now, she keeps aloof from me, and denies me the comfort and aid of her tendance in this extremity, though I intreated and importuned her, even by the remembrance of those children which she had borne from my loins, which were the dear pledges of our conjugal love.

Job 19:20

And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

I have nothing, that I can call skin, about me, but only that, which is of my gums; for the rest, the flesh hath shrunk from the skin, and the skin is gone into corruption.

Job 19:22

Why do ye persecute me as God?

If it hath pleased God to afflict me, will ye afflict me too? He knoweth upon what holy and just reasons he proceedeth with his creatures; it is not for you to arrogate this to yourselves; let it be enough therefore, that God’s hand is upon me, though yours be not.

Job 19:23

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book, &c.

I am now to speak a sentence so memorable, that I could desire it should be recorded to all posterity for ever.

Job 19:25

For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

However I am judged by you, yet this is my comfort, that I know I have a Judge and gracious Redeemer to come, who lives eternally when ye shall be gone to dust, and shall one day come down to judge the quick and the dead, and shall in that last day of our general account present himself here upon earth to the eyes of all flesh:

Job 19:26

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

And though this skin, and this body of mine, shall now soon go to corruption and dust; yet in this very flesh of mine, raised up glorious by his Divine power, I shall see my God and Saviour:

Job 19:27

Whom I shall see myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.

I shall see him with these mine own eyes, and not with any others for me: I shall see and receive him as my just and gracious Deliverer; both from those powers of death, and all these false calumniations which ye now cast upon me.

Job 19:28

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

But ye should rather say; Alas, why do we persecute this distressed man any more, seeing we find, if we look to the very root and bottom of this our quarrel, that he is upright, and innocent of those things whereof we have accused him?