19:1 約伯回答說：
19:2 你們攪擾我的心，用言語壓碎我要到幾時呢？
19:3 你們這十次羞辱我；你們苦待我也不以為恥。
19:4 果真我有錯，這錯乃是在我。
19:5 你們果然要向我誇大，以我的羞辱為證指責我，
19:6 就該知道是上帝傾覆我，用網羅圍繞我。
19:7 我因委曲呼叫，卻不蒙應允；我呼求，卻不得公斷。
19:8 上帝用籬笆攔住我的道路，使我不得經過；又使我的路徑黑暗。
19:9 他剝去我的榮光，摘去我頭上的冠冕。
19:10 他在四圍攻擊我，我便歸於死亡，將我的指望如樹拔出來。
19:11 他的忿怒向我發作，以我為敵人。
19:12 他的軍旅一齊上來，修築戰路攻擊我，在我帳棚的四圍安營。
19:13 他把我的弟兄隔在遠處，使我所認識的全然與我生疏。
19:14 我的親戚與我斷絕；我的密友都忘記我。
19:15 在我家寄居的，和我的使女都以我為外人；我在他們眼中看為外邦人。
19:16 我呼喚僕人，雖用口求他，他還是不回答。
19:17 我口的氣味，我妻子厭惡；我的懇求，我同胞也憎嫌。
19:18 連小孩子也藐視我；我若起來，他們都嘲笑我。
19:19 我的密友都憎惡我；我平日所愛的人向我翻臉。
19:20 我的皮肉緊貼骨頭；我只剩牙皮逃脫了。
19:21 我朋友啊，可憐我！可憐我！因為上帝的手攻擊我。
19:22 你們為甚麼彷彿上帝逼迫我，吃我的肉還以為不足呢？
19:23 惟願我的言語現在寫上，都記錄在書上；
19:24 用鐵筆鐫刻，用鉛灌在磐石上，直存到永遠。
19:25 我知道我的救贖主活著，末了必站立在地上。
19:26 我這皮肉滅絕之後，我必在肉體之外得見上帝。
19:27 我自己要見他，親眼要看他，並不像外人。我的心腸在我裡面消滅了！
19:28 你們若說：我們逼迫他要何等地重呢？惹事的根乃在乎他；
19:29 你們就當懼怕刀劍；因為忿怒惹動刀劍的刑罰，使你們知道有報應（原文是審判）。
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.[a]
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.
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約伯仍然是為自己抱屈，尤其是面對朋友們一次再一次的指責！然而這群朋友似乎聽不懂他的話，仍然是一直認為約伯是因為不義，才會遭受到今天的苦難，還是不善罷干休，一直爭辯下去，弄到約伯實在是很煩了！
約伯還哀求他們：「我朋友啊，可憐我！可憐我！因為上帝的手攻擊我。你們為甚麼彷彿上帝逼迫我，吃我的肉還以為不足呢？惟願我的言語現在寫上，都記錄在書上；用鐵筆鐫刻，用鉛灌在磐石上，直存到永遠。」
的確，要將約伯的遭遇告訴人，義人還是會受苦與災難的，不要看把人受災難當成上帝的報應，應當好好安慰人不好好安慰人，還一直攻擊人、批評人，這和魔鬼有甚麼兩樣呢？啟示錄12章10節提到：「…因為那在我們上帝面前晝夜控告我們弟兄的，已經被摔下去了」。那「控告我們弟兄的」，就是魔鬼！
正如同性戀傾向的人，要像一般人找到異性伴侶組成家庭，過正常生活是非常困難的！他們甚至覺得要是能正常成立家庭該多好，但是沒辦法！只好和同性伴侶成立家庭，彼此扶持過日子，走完人生的路，連這樣一點點的渴求還被那些自以為有道德的人封殺，是不是很可憐呢？說起來那些自以為有道德的人其實就是魔鬼的化身，因為魔鬼之所以為魔鬼是自以為很崇高，需要受到尊崇和敬拜，搶奪上帝的榮耀，用控告貶抑天使和世人！
如此看來約伯的朋友們和魔鬼真的沒有兩樣！但是，約伯並不失望與灰心，他相信上帝的拯救，正如他在這裡所說：「但是，我知道我的維護者( 「維護者」或譯「救贖主」。)活著；他最後要來為我伸冤。即使我的皮肉被疾病侵蝕，
我仍將以此身( 「我仍將以此身」或譯「我雖然不以此身，仍將」。)覲見上帝。」
他仍然相信必然救贖他，必定為他申冤，不管如何他必親眼看見上帝！因為他知道上帝必不離棄他，有一天必定高舉他！
讓我們也存約伯的信心來等候上帝國的實現，那時我們必得見上帝的榮光！
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