Job 19
1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,
And Job answers and says:
2 Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
“Until when do you afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me—
4 And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
And also—truly, I have erred, My error remains with me.
5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, And decide my reproach against me;
6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And has set around His net against me,
7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, And He places darkness on my paths.
9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
He has stripped my honor from off me, And He turns 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 breaks me down all around, and I go, And removes my hope like a tree.
11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
And He kindles His anger against me, And reckons me to Him as His adversaries.
12 His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
His troops come in together, And they raise up their way against me, And encamp around my tent.
13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
He has put my brothers far off from me, And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
14 My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
My neighbors have ceased And my familiar friends 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.
Sojourners of my house and my maids, Reckon me for a stranger; I have been an alien in their eyes.
16 I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
I have called to my servant, And he does not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
17 My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favors to the sons of my [mother’s] womb.
18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
19 All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
All the men of my counsel detest me, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
To my skin and to my flesh My bone has cleaved, And I deliver myself with the skin of 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, you my friends, For the hand of God has struck against me.
22 Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you pursue me as God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
Who grants now, that my words may be written? Who grants that they may be inscribed in a scroll?
24 And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
With a pen of iron and lead—They may be hewn in a rock forever.
25 For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
That—I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For He raises the dust.
26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
And after my skin has surrounded this [body], Then from my flesh I see 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 see on my side, And my eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, My reins have been consumed in my bosom.
28 But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
But you say, Why do we pursue after him? And the root of the matter has been found in me.
29 Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
Be afraid because of the sword, For the punishments of the sword [are] furious, That you may know that [there is] a judgment.”
