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