Job 19
1 Then Job answered, and said:
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
5 But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
6 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
11 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
15 They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien 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 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
18 Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.
All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
20 The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched 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 persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up 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 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.
Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
