Job 19
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered, and said:
2 How long will all of you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have all of you reproached me: all of you are not ashamed that all of you make yourselves strange to me.
Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remains with myself.
For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
5 If indeed all of you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
6 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has 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 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope has he removed 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 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.
His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and camp round 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 has put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily cut off from me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an foreigner 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 servant, and he gave me no answer; I implored him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I implored for the children's sake of mine own body.
My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved 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 cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O all of you my friends; for the hand of God has 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 all of you 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 words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon 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 worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be 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 all of you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
29 Be all of you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that all of you may know there is a judgment.
Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.
