Job 19
1 Then Job answered:
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
3 Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
4 Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
10 He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
11 His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
12 His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
14 My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
15 My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18 Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19 All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
20 My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
22 Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
24 by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
25 But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26 Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
27 I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
28 If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
