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 will you vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
You speak against me; you do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
4 And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
Yes verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right [to speak]; and my words err, and are unreasonable.
5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
But alas! for you magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me.
7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment.
8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
And he has stripped me of my glory, and has 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 has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.
11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.
12 His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.
13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers [rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless.
14 My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, 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.
[As for] my household, and my maidservants, I was a stranger before them.
16 I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he listened not; and my mouth entreated [him].
17 My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
And I implored my wife, and earnestly entreated the sons of my concubines.
18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.
19 All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth.
21 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Therefore do you persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever,
24 And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
25 For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,
26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
[and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;
27 Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in [my] bosom.
28 But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
But if you shall also say, What shall we say before him, and [so] find the root of the matter in 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.
Do you also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.
