Job 19:1
And Job answered and said,
Job 19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
Job 19:3
These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
Job 19:4
And be it that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
Job 19:6
Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Job 19:8
He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job 19:10
He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
Job 19:11
And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
Job 19:12
His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15
The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16
I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb.
Job 19:18
Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
Job 19:19
All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 19:20
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as *God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:23
Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Job 19:24
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
Job 19:25
And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
Job 19:26
And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
Job 19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: --my reins are consumed within me.
Job 19:28
If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,
Job 19:29
Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.