Job 19
1 Then Job answered,
Then responded Job, and said: —
2 “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
4 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
7 “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
8 He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away—like a tree—my hope;
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;
13 “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;
16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
21 “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
23 “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
26 After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:
27 whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
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 say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is 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 of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
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.
