< Job 19 >
1 And he answered Job and he said.
Then responded Job, and said: —
2 Until when? will you torment! self my and will you crush? me with words.
How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
3 This ten times you have insulted me not you have been ashamed you have ill-treated me.
These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
4 And even truly I have erred with me it lodges error my.
And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
5 If truly above me you will magnify yourselves and you may argue on me disgrace my.
If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
6 Know then that God he has wronged me and net his over me he has closed.
Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
7 There! I cry out violence and not I am answered I cry for help and there not [is] justice.
Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
8 Way my he has walled up and not I will pass and on paths my darkness he puts.
My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
9 Honor my from on me he has stripped off and he has removed [the] crown of head my.
My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
10 He has torn down me all around and I have gone and he has uprooted like a tree hope my.
He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away—like a tree—my hope;
11 And he has kindled towards me anger his and he has considered me himself like foes his.
Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
12 Together - they have come troops his and they have piled up on me way their and they have encamped all around tent my.
Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;
13 Brothers my from with me he has put far away and acquaintances my surely they have become estranged from me.
My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
14 They have ceased kindred my and acquaintances my they have forgotten me.
Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
15 [the] sojourners of House my and female servants my to a stranger they consider me a foreigner I have become in view their.
Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;
16 To servant my I call and not he answers with mouth my I seek favor to him.
To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
17 Breath my it is loathsome to wife my and I am repulsive to [the] sons of womb my.
My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
18 Also young boys they reject me I arise and they spoke against me.
Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
19 They abhor me all [the] men of council my and whom I love they have turned against me.
All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
20 On skin my and on flesh my it clings bone my and I have escaped! with [the] skin of teeth my.
Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
21 Show favor to me show favor to me O you friends my for [the] hand of God it has touched me.
Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
22 Why? are you persecuting me like God and from flesh my not are you satisfied?
Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
23 Who? will he give then and they will be written down! words my who? will he give on the scroll so they may be inscribed.
Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
24 With a stylus of iron and lead for ever in the rock they will be engraved!
That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
25 And I I know vindicator my he lives and last on dust he will stand.
But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
26 And after skin my people have struck off this and from flesh my I will see God.
And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:
27 Whom I - I will see for myself and own eyes my they will see and not a stranger they are faint kidneys my in bosom my.
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 If you will say what? will we persecute him and [the] root of [the] matter it has been found in me.
Surely ye should say—Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.
29 Be afraid yourselves - of [the] sword for rage [is] iniquities of [the] sword so that you may know! (that a judgment. *Q(k)*)
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.