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Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Passage Lookup: Job 19-20

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Job 19:1
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Then Job answered:
Job 19:2
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How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
Job 19:3
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You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat[a] me without shame.(a)
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Job 19:4
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Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only[b] me.
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Job 19:5
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If you really want to appear superior(b) to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
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Job 19:6
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then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net.(c)
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Job 19:7
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I cry out: "Violence!" but get no response;(d) I call for help, but there is no justice.
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Job 19:8
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He has blocked(e) my way so that I cannot pass through; He has veiled my paths with darkness.(f)
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Job 19:9
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He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
Job 19:10
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He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.[c] He uproots my hope like a tree.(g)
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Job 19:11
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His anger(h) burns against me, and He regards me as one of His enemies.(i)
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Job 19:12
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His troops advance together; they construct a ramp[d] against me and camp(j) around my tent.
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Job 19:13
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He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.(k)
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Job 19:14
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My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15
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My house guests[e] and female servants regard me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.(l)
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Job 19:16
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I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth.
Job 19:17
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My breath is offensive to my wife, and my own family[f] finds me repulsive.
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Job 19:18
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Even young boys scorn me. When I stand up, they mock me.(m)
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Job 19:19
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All of my best friends[g] despise me,(n) and those I love have turned against me.(o)
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Job 19:20
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My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21
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Have mercy on me, my friends,(p) have mercy, for God's hand(q) has struck me.(r)
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Job 19:22
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Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Job 19:23
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I wish that my words were written down, that they were recorded on a scroll
Job 19:24
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or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!
Job 19:25
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But I know my living Redeemer,[h](s) and He will stand on the dust[i] at last.[j](t)
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Job 19:26
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Even after my skin has been destroyed,[k] yet I will see God in[l] my flesh.(u)
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Job 19:27
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I will see Him myself; my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.[m] My heart longs[n] within me.(v)
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Job 19:28
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If you say, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?"[o]
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Job 19:29
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then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings punishment by the sword,(w) so that you may know there is a judgment.
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Job 20:1
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Then Zophar the Naamathite(a) replied:
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Job 20:2
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This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset![a]
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Job 20:3
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I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding[b] makes me reply.(b)
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Job 20:4
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Don't you know that ever since antiquity, from the time man was placed on earth,
Job 20:5
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the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?(c)
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Job 20:6
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Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds,(d)
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Job 20:7
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he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know[c] him will ask, "Where is he?"(e)
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Job 20:8
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He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.(f)
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Job 20:9
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The eye that saw him will see him no more,(g) and his household will no longer see him.(h)
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Job 20:10
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His children will beg from[d] the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth.
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Job 20:11
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His bones may be full of youthful vigor, but will lie down with him in the grave.(i)
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Job 20:12
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Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
Job 20:13
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though he cherishes it and will not let it go but keeps it in his mouth,(j)
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Job 20:14
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yet the food in his stomach turns into cobras' venom inside him.
Job 20:15
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He swallows wealth but must vomit it up; God will force it from his stomach.
Job 20:16
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He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper's fangs[e] will kill him.(k)
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Job 20:17
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He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.(l)
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Job 20:18
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He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he doesn't enjoy the profits from his trading.
Job 20:19
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For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.(m)
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Job 20:20
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Because his appetite is never satisfied,[f] he does not let anything he desires escape.
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Job 20:21
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Nothing is left for him to consume;(n) therefore, his prosperity will not last.
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Job 20:22
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At the height of his success[g] distress will come to him;(o) the full weight of misery[h] will crush him.
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Job 20:23
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When he fills his stomach, God will send His burning anger against him, raining(p) it down on him while he is eating.[i]
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Job 20:24
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If he flees from an iron weapon, an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.
Job 20:25
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He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver.[j] Terrors come over him.(q)
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Job 20:26
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Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned by human hands will consume(r) him; it will feed on what is left in his tent.
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Job 20:27
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The heavens will expose his iniquity,(s) and the earth will rise up against him.(t)
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Job 20:28
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The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God's anger.
Job 20:29
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This is the wicked man's lot(u) from God, the inheritance God ordained for him.
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