Job 19
1. Then Job answered * and said * ,
2. How long will ye vex * my soul, and break * me in pieces with words?
3. These ten times have ye reproached * me: ye are not ashamed * that ye make yourselves strange * to me.
4. And be it indeed that I have erred * , mine error remaineth * with myself.
5. If indeed ye will magnify * yourselves against me, and plead * against me my reproach:
6. Know * now that God hath overthrown * me, and hath compassed * me with his net.
7. Behold, I cry out * of wrong, but I am not heard * : I cry aloud * , but there is no judgment.
8. He hath fenced up * my way that I cannot pass * , and he hath set * darkness in my paths.
9. He hath stripped * me of my glory, and 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.
11. He hath also kindled * his wrath against me, and he counteth * me unto him as one of his enemies.
12. His troops come * together, and raise up * their way against me, and encamp * round about my tabernacle.
13. He hath put * my brethren far * from me, and mine acquaintance * are verily estranged * from me.
14. My kinsfolk have failed * , and my familiar 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.
16. I called * my servant, and he gave me no answer * ; I intreated * him with my mouth.
17. My breath is strange * to my wife, though I intreated * for the children's sake of mine own body.
18. Yea, young children despised * me; I arose * , and they spake * against me.
19. All my inward friends abhorred * me: and they whom I loved * are turned * against me.
20. My bone cleaveth * to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped * with 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.
22. Why do ye persecute * me as God, and are not satisfied * with my flesh?
23. Oh that * my words were now written * ! oh that * they were printed * in a book !
24. That they were graven * with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !
25. For I know * that my redeemer * liveth, and that he shall stand * at the latter day upon the earth:
26. And though after my skin worms destroy * this body, yet in my flesh shall I see * God:
27. Whom I shall see * for myself, and mine eyes shall behold * , and not another * ; though my reins be consumed * within me.
28. But ye should say * , Why persecute * we him, seeing the root of the matter is found * in me?
29. Be ye afraid * of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know * there is a judgment * .
