Job 19
1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,
Then responded Job, and said: —
2 Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
4 And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
Lo! I cry—out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
My glory—from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
10 He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope 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 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
12 His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;
13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
14 My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
15 They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger 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 called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed 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 was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
19 All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne 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 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
22 Why do ye 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 wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
24 And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
25 For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I 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 Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are 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 But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
Surely ye should say—Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.
29 Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
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.
