Job 19
1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,
But Job answered by saying:
2 Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?
3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me.
4 And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me.
5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace.
6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges.
7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.
8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.
9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
He has plundered me of my glory, and he has stolen the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope.
11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy.
12 His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
His troops have gathered together, and they have made their way to me, and they have besieged my tabernacle all around.
13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers.
14 My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me.
15 They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
The inhabitants of my house and my maidservants treat me just as if I were a stranger, and I have been like a sojourner in their eyes.
16 I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he did not respond; I pleaded with him with my own mouth.
17 My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
My wife has shuddered at my breath, and I have begged the sons of my loins.
18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me.
19 All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
Those who were sometimes my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me.
20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth.
21 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh?
23 Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,
24 And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone?
25 For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.
26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
27 Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom.
28 But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”
29 Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment.
