Job chapter 19
Job replies to the animosity of his wife and relatives and three “friends.” He feels wronged. However, he knows that his Redeemer lives.
JOB KNOWS HIS REDEEMER LIVES
VERSE 1. Then Job answered,
VERSE 2. “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
Job is sick of being tormented.
VERSE 3. You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
You aren’t ashamed. These people should be ashamed of themselves. However, they are not.
VERSE 4. If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
VERSE 5. If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
VERSE 6. know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
God has subverted me. That is, “God .. has wronged me” (NLT translation).
This is a big change for Job. He has finally perceived what actually happened.
Job 1:12. The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
God authorized Job to lose everything: oxen, donkeys, servants, sheep, camels, and sons and daughters.
Job 2:6. The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.
God authorized Job to be struck with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
surrounded me with his net. To a suffering person, God can feel like an enemy.
And to a person in The Dark Night, God can feel like an enemy.
Such people are in trauma. They say things that, biblically or theologically, are off-base. They need our compassion and listening skills, not our corrections.
VERSE 7. “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
I am not heard. Nobody is listening to Job.
VERSE 8. He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
VERSE 9. He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
VERSE 10. He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
VERSE 11. He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
VERSE 12. His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
VERSE 13. “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
my brothers. Apparently Job has siblings. But they are not present.
VERSE 14. My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
My relatives. Job’s relatives are not present.
My familiar friends. Even Job’s closest friends have forgotten Job.
VERSE 15. Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
VERSE 16. I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
VERSE 17. My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
VERSE 18. Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
VERSE 19. All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
VERSE 20. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
VERSE 21. “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Have pity on me. A suffering person needs our compassion. Our listening.
VERSE 22. Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
VERSE 23. “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh that my words were now written. In the fullness of time, Job’s words will indeed be written in a book!
VERSE 24. That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
VERSE 25. But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
This verse is fantastic! Would you consider memorizing it? More great verses to memorize from the Book of Job and from the entire Bible.
I know that my Redeemer lives. This is a triumphant statement of faith.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth. This hints of the resurrection!
VERSE 26. After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
in my flesh shall I see God. The Lord Jesus says people whose heart is pure will be blessed to see God! Read more »
VERSE 27. Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
My heart is consumed within me. Job is consumed with longing for God.
We call that the Prayer of Longing. It is a great way to pray. We sit still and long for God.
VERSE 28. If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
VERSE 29. be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
JOB
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