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Job 19 (CEV)

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¹ Job said: ² How long will you torture me with your words? ³ Isn't ten times enough for you to accuse me? Aren't you ashamed? ⁴ Even if I have sinned, you haven't been harmed. ⁵ You boast of your goodness, claiming I am suffering because I am guilty. ⁶ But God is the one at fault for finding fault with me. ⁷ Though I pray to be rescued from this torment, no whisper of justice answers me. ⁸ God has me trapped with a wall of darkness ⁹ and stripped of respect. ¹⁰ God rips me apart, uproots my hopes, ¹¹ and attacks with fierce anger, as though I were his enemy. ¹² His entire army advances, then surrounds my tent. ¹³ God has turned relatives and friends against me, ¹⁴ and I am forgotten. ¹⁵ My guests and my servants consider me a stranger, ¹⁶ and when I call my servants, they pay no attention. ¹⁷ My breath disgusts my wife; everyone in my family turns away. ¹⁸ Young children can't stand me, and when I come near, they make fun. ¹⁹ My best friends and loved ones have turned from me. ²⁰ I am skin and bones-- just barely alive. ²¹ My friends, I beg you for pity! God has made me his target. ²² Hasn't he already done enough? Why do you join the attack? ²³ I wish that my words could be written down ²⁴ or chiseled into rock. ²⁵ I know that my Savior lives, and at the end he will stand on this earth. ²⁶ My flesh may be destroyed, yet from this body I will see God. ²⁷ Yes, I will see him for myself, and I long for that moment. ²⁸ My friends, you think up ways to blame and torment me, saying I brought it on myself. ²⁹ But watch out for the judgment, when God will punish you!