Chapter summary

In Job 19, Job responds to his visitors by asking how long they will torment him with their words and reproach him. He states that God has wronged him, blocked his path, stripped him of his honor, and treated him like an enemy with advancing troops. Job laments that his family, acquaintances, servants, guests, and close friends have abandoned, forgotten, and turned against him, leaving him isolated and physically emaciated. He pleads with his friends to show him pity instead of persecuting him like God. Expressing a desire for his words to be permanently inscribed in a book or on stone, Job declares his belief that his Redeemer lives and that he will see God in his flesh. Finally, he warns his friends to fear the sword of judgment if they continue to persecute him.

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