Job 19
1 Then responded Job, and said: —
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
3 These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
4 And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
5 If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
6 Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
8 My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9 My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
10 He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away—like a tree—my hope;
He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
11 Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
12 Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;
His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13 My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
14 Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue 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;
They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
16 To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed 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 was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18 Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19 All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are 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 bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21 Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
22 Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
Why do ye 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 wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
24 That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
25 But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26 And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from 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 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!
Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
28 Surely ye should say—Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.
But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter 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 ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
