Job 19:1
And Job answereth and saith: --
Job 19:2
Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
Job 19:3
These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me--
Job 19:4
And also--truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
Job 19:5
If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
Job 19:6
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
Job 19:7
Lo, I cry out--violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
Job 19:8
My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
Job 19:9
Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
Job 19:10
He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
Job 19:11
And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
Job 19:12
Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
Job 19:13
My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
Job 19:14
Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
Job 19:15
Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
Job 19:16
To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
Job 19:17
My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.
Job 19:18
Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
Job 19:19
Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
Job 19:20
To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21
Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
Job 19:22
Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
Job 19:23
Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
Job 19:24
With a pen of iron and lead--For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
Job 19:25
That--I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
Job 19:26
And after my skin hath compassed this body , Then from my flesh I see God:
Job 19:27
Whom I--I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
Job 19:28
But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.
Job 19:29
Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious are the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that there is a judgment.