Job 19
1 And Job answereth and saith: —
Then Job answered and said,
2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
How long will all of you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me —
These ten times have all of you reproached me: all of you are not ashamed that all of you make yourselves strange to me.
4 And also — truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remains with myself.
5 If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
If indeed all of you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
7 Lo, I cry out — violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope has he removed like a tree.
11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him 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 troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and camp round about my tabernacle.
13 My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
He has put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily cut off from me.
14 Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have 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 dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an foreigner 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 servant, and he gave me no answer; I implored 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 is strange to my wife, though I implored for the children's sake of mine own body.
18 Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
19 Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved 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 cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O all of you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
Why do all of you 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 words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 With a pen of iron and lead — For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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.
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be 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 all of you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found 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 all of you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that all of you may know there is a judgment.
