Job 19
1 Then Job answered and said,
And Job answereth and saith: —
2 How long will all of you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me 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.
These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me —
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remains with myself.
And also — truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
5 If indeed all of you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
6 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Lo, I cry out — violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth 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 breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.
And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and camp round about my tabernacle.
Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
13 He has put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily cut off from me.
My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends 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.
Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I implored him with my mouth.
To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I implored for the children's sake of mine own body.
My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of 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.
Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
22 Why do all of you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
With a pen of iron and lead — For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see 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 — I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
28 But all of you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.
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.
Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a judgment.
