Job 19
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
“How long will you make me suffer and break me into pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.
These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have treated me harshly.
4 And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
If it is indeed true that I have erred, my error remains my own concern.
5 If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:
If indeed you will exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
then you should know that God has done wrong to me and has caught me in his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.
See, I cry out, “Violence!” but I get no answer. I call out for help, but there is no justice.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my path.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.
He has stripped me of my glory, and he has taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; he has pulled up my hope like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.
He has also kindled his wrath against me; he regards me as one of his adversaries.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
His troops come on together; they cast up siege mounds against me and encamp around my tent.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
He has put my brothers far from me; my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
My kinsfolk have failed me; my close friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Those who once stayed as guests in my house and my female servants regard me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer although I entreat him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s [sake] of mine own body.
My breath is offensive to my wife; I am even disgusting to those who were born from my mother's womb.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Even young children despise me; if I rise to speak, they speak against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
All my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I love have turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh; I survive only by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you ever be satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Oh, that my words were now written down! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Oh, that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at last he will stand on the earth;
26 And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed, then in my flesh I will see God.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.
I will see him with my own eyes—I, and not someone else. My heart fails within me.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
If you say, 'How we will persecute him! The root of his troubles lies in him,'
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.
then be afraid of the sword, because wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
