Job 19
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
2 “How long will you make me suffer and break me into pieces with words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have treated me harshly.
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4 If it is indeed true that I have erred, my error remains my own concern.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed you will exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 then you should know that God has done wrong to me and has caught me in his net.
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 See, I cry out, “Violence!” but I get no answer. I call out for help, but there is no justice.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my path.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and he has taken the crown from my head.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; he has pulled up my hope like a tree.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me; he regards me as one of his adversaries.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come on together; they cast up siege mounds against me and encamp around my tent.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13 He has put my brothers far from me; my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed me; my close friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 Those who once stayed as guests in my house and my female servants regard me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer although I entreat him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife; I am even disgusting to those who were born from my mother's womb.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
18 Even young children despise me; if I rise to speak, they speak against me.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I love have turned against me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh; I survive only by the skin of my teeth.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you ever be satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh, that my words were now written down! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 Oh, that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at last he will stand on the earth;
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed, then in my flesh I will see God.
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 I will see him with my own eyes—I, and not someone else. My heart fails within me.
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him! The root of his troubles lies in him,'
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29 then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
