Job 19
1 Then Job answered,
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
4 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead my disgrace against me;
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 "Look, I cry out 'Injustice.' but there is no justice.
Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and camp around my tent.
His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 "Oh that my words were now written. Oh that they were inscribed in a scroll.
Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever.
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him, because the root of the matter is found in him.'
But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
29 Be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."
Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
