< Job 19 >
1 And he answered Job and he said.
Then Job answered,
2 Until when? will you torment! self my and will you crush? me with words.
“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
3 This ten times you have insulted me not you have been ashamed you have ill-treated me.
You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
4 And even truly I have erred with me it lodges error my.
If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
5 If truly above me you will magnify yourselves and you may argue on me disgrace my.
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
6 Know then that God he has wronged me and net his over me he has closed.
know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
7 There! I cry out violence and not I am answered I cry for help and there not [is] justice.
“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 Way my he has walled up and not I will pass and on paths my darkness he puts.
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
9 Honor my from on me he has stripped off and he has removed [the] crown of head my.
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He has torn down me all around and I have gone and he has uprooted like a tree hope my.
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
11 And he has kindled towards me anger his and he has considered me himself like foes his.
He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among 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.
His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 Brothers my from with me he has put far away and acquaintances my surely they have become estranged from me.
“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 They have ceased kindred my and acquaintances my they have forgotten me.
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends 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.
Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
16 To servant my I call and not he answers with mouth my I seek favor to him.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
17 Breath my it is loathsome to wife my and I am repulsive to [the] sons of womb my.
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
18 Also young boys they reject me I arise and they spoke against me.
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19 They abhor me all [the] men of council my and whom I love they have turned against me.
All my familiar friends abhor me. They 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.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin 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.
“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why? are you persecuting me like God and from flesh my not are you satisfied?
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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 that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 With a stylus of iron and lead for ever in the rock they will be engraved!
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25 And I I know vindicator my he lives and last on dust he will stand.
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
26 And after skin my people have struck off this and from flesh my I will see God.
After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
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, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
28 If you will say what? will we persecute him and [the] root of [the] matter it has been found in me.
If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because 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 afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”