Job 19
1 And Job answereth and saith: —
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me —
Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
4 And also — truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
5 If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Lo, I cry out — violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
12 Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13 My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
14 Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
15 Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
16 To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
17 My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.
My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18 Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19 Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
20 To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
22 Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
24 With a pen of iron and lead — For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
25 That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26 And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God:
And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
27 Whom I — I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
28 But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.
But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
29 Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a judgment.
Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
