Job 19
1 Job replied,
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 “How long will you go on tormenting me? How long will you go on crushing me with words?
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
3 Ten times already you have humiliated me. Aren't you ashamed for treating me so badly?
Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
4 Even if I did sin, that's my problem, and has nothing to do with you.
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
5 You think you're so much better than me, and you use my degradation against me.
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
6 But you should realize that it's God who has wronged me, he has trapped me in his net.
Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Even though I cry for help, I get no answer; even though I shout my objections, I get no justice.
Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
8 God has walled me in so I can't escape; he has plunged my path into darkness.
Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9 He has stripped my honor from me; he has taken away my reputation.
Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
10 He tears me down from all sides until I am finished; he has destroyed my hope like a tree that is uprooted.
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; he treats me as one of his enemies.
And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
12 God's troops assemble to attack me. They build ramparts against me. They encircle and besiege my home.
His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13 He has driven my brothers far away from me; all my former friends are estranged from me.
He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
14 My relatives have abandoned me; my close friends have forgotten me.
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
15 My house guests and my maidservants treat me as a stranger—to them I have become a foreigner.
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 my servant, but he doesn't reply. I have to beg him!
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
17 I am repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own brothers.
My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18 Even young children despise me; when I stand up they ridicule me.
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19 All my closest friends despise me, and those I loved have turned on me.
All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
20 I've been reduced to skin and bones and I survive 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 on me, because God has struck me down!
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
22 Why are you persecuting me like God does? Aren't you satisfied with getting your pound of flesh?
Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 I wish my words could be written down, recorded in a book,
Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
24 or engraved with an iron pen and molten lead in the rock forever.
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
25 I know my Redeemer is alive, and that he shall finally take the stand for me on the earth.
For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26 Even though my skin is destroyed, in my body I shall see God.
And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
27 I myself will see him—with my own eyes, and not those of someone else! The thought overcomes 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 You say to yourselves, ‘How can we make him suffer so he can see he is the source of his problems?’
But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
29 You yourselves should fear being punished by God, for you know anger brings God's punishment that accompanies judgment.”
Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
