Job 19
1 Then responded Job, and said: —
And Job answers and says:
2 How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
“Until when do you afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
3 These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me—
4 And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
And also—truly, I have erred, My error remains with me.
5 If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, And decide my reproach against me;
6 Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And has set around His net against me,
7 Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
8 My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, And He places darkness on my paths.
9 My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
He has stripped my honor from off me, And He turns 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 breaks me down all around, and I go, And removes my hope like a tree.
11 Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
And He kindles His anger against me, And reckons me to Him as 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 in together, And they raise up their way 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 off from me, And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
14 Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
My neighbors have ceased And 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;
Sojourners of my house and my maids, Reckon me for a stranger; I have been an alien in their eyes.
16 To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
I have called to my servant, And he does not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
17 My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favors to the sons of my [mother’s] womb.
18 Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
19 All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
All the men of my counsel detest me, And those I have loved, Have been 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.
To my skin and to my flesh My bone has cleaved, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
Pity me, pity me, you my friends, For the hand of God has struck against me.
22 Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
Why do you pursue 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:
Who grants now, that my words may be written? Who grants that they may be inscribed in a scroll?
24 That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
With a pen of iron and lead—They may be hewn in a rock forever.
25 But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
That—I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For He raises the dust.
26 And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:
And after my skin has surrounded this [body], Then from my flesh I see God—
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 see on my side, And my eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, My reins have been consumed in my bosom.
28 Surely ye should say—Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.
But you say, Why do we pursue after him? And the root of the matter has been 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 because of the sword, For the punishments of the sword [are] furious, That you may know that [there is] a judgment.”
