Bible Reading
Prayer
Dear God, thank you for letting us know you. Please help us learn from your Word. Help us to serve and praise you. Amen!
Job 19 (NIV)
¹ Then Job replied:
² “How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?
³ Ten times now you have reproached me;
shamelessly you attack me.
⁴ If it is true that I have gone astray,
my error remains my concern alone.
⁵ If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me
and use my humiliation against me,
⁶ then know that God has wronged me
and drawn his net around me.
⁷ “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;
though I call for help, there is no justice.
⁸ He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;
he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
⁹ He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.
¹⁰ He tears me down on every side till I am gone;
he uproots my hope like a tree.
¹¹ His anger burns against me;
he counts me among his enemies.
¹² His troops advance in force;
they build a siege ramp against me
and encamp around my tent.
¹³ “He has alienated my family from me;
my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
¹⁴ My relatives have gone away;
my closest friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;
they look on me as on a stranger.
¹⁶ I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
though I beg him with my own mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my own family.
¹⁸ Even the little boys scorn me;
when I appear, they ridicule me.
¹⁹ All my intimate friends detest me;
those I love have turned against me.
²⁰ I am nothing but skin and bones;
I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
²¹ “Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,
for the hand of God has struck me.
²² Why do you pursue me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
²³ “Oh, that my words were recorded,
that they were written on a scroll,
²⁴ that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead,
or engraved in rock forever!
²⁵ I know that my redeemer lives,
and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
²⁶ And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God;
²⁷ I myself will see him
with my own eyes—I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
²⁸ “If you say, ‘How we will hound him,
since the root of the trouble lies in him, ’
²⁹ you should fear the sword yourselves;
for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,
and then you will know that there is judgment. ”
Sermon Outline
- Job is attacked as a Sinner (Job 19:1-12)
- Job’s community has abandoned him (Job 19:13–22)
- But Job believes that God Isn’t Against him(Job 19:23–29)
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