| Job 19:1 |
Then Job answered and said, |
| Job 19:2 |
How long will you grieve my soul / And crush me with [your] words? |
| Job 19:3 |
These ten times you have reproached me; / You are not ashamed to deal wrongly with me. |
| Job 19:4 |
And be it that I have erred, / My error remains with me. |
| Job 19:5 |
If you indeed magnify yourselves against me / And use my reproach in argument against me, |
| Job 19:6 |
Know then that God has subverted my cause / And compassed me about with His net. |
| Job 19:7 |
Indeed, I cry out, Violence! and I am not answered; / I call for help, and there is no justice. |
| Job 19:8 |
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; / And He has put darkness upon my paths. |
| Job 19:9 |
He has stripped my glory from me / And taken away the crown on my head. |
| Job 19:10 |
He has broken me all around, and I am gone; / And my hope is plucked up like a tree. |
| Job 19:11 |
He has also kindled His anger against me, / And in Himself He considers me as His adversary. |
| Job 19:12 |
His troops come together / And cast up their highway against me / And encamp all around my tent. |
| Job 19:13 |
He has removed my brothers far from me, / And those who know me are wholly estranged from me. |
| Job 19:14 |
My relatives have failed [me,] / And my acquaintances have forgotten me. |
| Job 19:15 |
Those who sojourn in my house and my maids consider me as a stranger; / I am a foreigner in their eyes. |
| Job 19:16 |
To my servant I call out, but he does not answer; / I entreat him with my mouth. |
| Job 19:17 |
My breath is strange to my wife; / And my supplications, to the children of my [mother's] womb. |
| Job 19:18 |
Even little children despise me: / I arise and they speak against me. |
| Job 19:19 |
All the men whom I take counsel with abhor me, / And those whom I love have turned against me. |
| Job 19:20 |
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, / And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
| Job 19:21 |
Pity me, pity me, O my friends; / For the hand of God has touched me. |
| Job 19:22 |
Why do you persecute me as God does / And are not satisfied with [eating] my flesh? |
| Job 19:23 |
Oh, that my words were now written! / Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! |
| Job 19:24 |
That with an iron pen and with lead / They were engraved in rock forever! |
| Job 19:25 |
But I know that my Redeemer lives, / And at the last He will stand upon the earth; |
| Job 19:26 |
And after this body of mine is destroyed, / Outside my flesh I will look on God, |
| Job 19:27 |
Whom I, even I, will look on for myself, / And my eyes will see; [I,] and no other. / My inward parts that long for [God] are consumed within me. |
| Job 19:28 |
If you say, How will we persecute him? / For the root of the matter is found in him; |
| Job 19:29 |
Be fearful of the sword, / For wrath [brings] the punishment of the sword, / That you may know that there is a judgment. |