Read Job chapter 19 (Contemporary English Version) on maBible, the Bible online. In this chapter: Job's Reply to Bildad, How Long Will You Torture Me?, I Am Forgotten.
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 Protector 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!