Job 19
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Then Job answered and said,
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How long will you vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
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These ten times have you reproached me: You are not ashamed that you deal hardly with
me.
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And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remains with myself.
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If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
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Know now that God has subverted me [in my cause], And has compassed me with his net.
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
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He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope has he plucked up
like a tree.
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He has also kindled his anger against me, And he counts me to him as [one of] his
adversaries.
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His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about
my tent.
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He has put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from
me.
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My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an
alien in their sight.
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I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth.
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My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
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Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
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All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
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My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; For the hand of God has touched
me.
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Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
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But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, And at last he will stand up upon the
earth:
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And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I
see God;
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Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.
My heart is consumed within me.
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If you say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in
me;
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Be you afraid of the sword: For anger [brings] the punishments of the sword, That
you may know there is a judgment.