Job 19
1 Then responded Job, and said: —
Then Job answered,
2 How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
3 These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
You have reproached me ten times. You are not ashamed that you attack me.
4 And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5 If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
6 Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
7 Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
9 My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away—like a tree—my hope;
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
11 Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
12 Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;
His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;
Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
16 To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
17 My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18 Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19 All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
20 Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25 But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
26 And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:
After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
27 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!
whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
28 Surely ye should say—Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.
If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
29 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.
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
