Job 19
1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,
Then Job answered, and said:
2 Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
Behold, these 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.
For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed 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 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken 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 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 wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
12 His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
14 My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that 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.
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 seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated 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 hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
19 All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, 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 bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
21 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande 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 that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
24 And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint 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 liveth, and in the last day I shall 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 shall be clothed 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.
Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
28 But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word 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.
Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.
