Job 19
1 Then answered Job, and said,
Then responded Job, and said: —
2 How long will ye grieve my soul, and crush me with words?
How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed when ye show yourselves as strangers to me.
These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
4 Yea, if it be indeed that I have erred, let my error remain with myself.
And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
5 But if indeed ye wish to magnify yourselves above me, and to prove against me my disgrace:
If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
6 Then know for certain that God hath bent me down, and hath laid his net all around me.
Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
7 Behold, I cry out concerning the violence [done me], but I am not answered: I entreat aloud, but there is no justice.
Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
8 My road hath he fenced up, so that I cannot pass out; and on my paths he placeth darkness.
My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
9 My glory hath he stripped from me, and removed the crown of my head.
My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
10 He hath pulled me down on every side, and I am going hence; and he hath rooted up like a tree my hope.
He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away—like a tree—my hope;
11 He hath also kindled against me his wrath, and he counteth me with himself as one of his adversaries.
Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
12 Altogether come on his troops, and make level against me their way, and encamp round about my tent.
Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;
13 My brothers hath he removed far from me, and my acquaintance are entirely estranged from me.
My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
14 My near of kin have withdrawn, and those befriended by me have forgotten me.
Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
15 Ye that sojourn in my house, and my maid-servants, regard me as a stranger: an alien am I become in their eyes.
Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;
16 I call for my servant, but he will not answer, though I were to entreat him with my mouth.
To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
17 My breath is become nauseous to my wife, and my caressing, to the children of my own body.
My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
18 Yea, children even despise me: I rise up, but they speak against me.
Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
19 All that have had my confidence abominate me; and those whom I have loved are turned against me.
All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
20 To my skin and to my flesh my bones do cleave, and I must sustain myself with the gums of my teeth.
Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
21 Spare me, spare me, O ye, my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
22 Why will ye persecute me as God [hath done], and will never be satisfied with my flesh?
Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
23 Oh who would but grant, that my words might be written down! oh who would grant that they were entered in a book!
Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
24 That they were hewn with an iron pen and [blackened with] lead for eternity in the hard rock!
That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
25 And well I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he will remain as the last after the creatures of the dust [are passed away];
But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
26 And after my skin is cut to pieces will this be: and then freed from my body shall I behold God;
And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:
27 Whom I shall myself behold to my happiness, and whom my eyes will see, and not as a stranger, [when even] my reins are consumed within my bosom.
Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, [shall] have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!
28 But if ye should say, How will we pursue him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me:
Surely ye should say—Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.
29 Then have dread for yourselves of the sword; for the wrath [which ye excite] is an iniquity that bringeth the sword; in order that ye may know there is one that judgeth [in the world].
Be ye afraid—on your part—of the face of the sword, because, wrath, [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty.
