Job 19
1 And Job answered and said,
Then Job answered, and said:
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
4 And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
8 He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
10 He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
11 And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
12 His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
15 The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.
16 I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
18 Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
19 All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.
20 My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
23 Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
24 That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
25 And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
26 And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God;
And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: — my reins are consumed within me.
Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
28 If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,
Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
29 Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.
