19:1 And Job answered and said, |
19:2 "How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? |
19:3 These ten times you have blamed me; yet you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. |
19:4 And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me. |
19:5 If indeed you magnify yourself against me, and plead my reproach against me, |
19:6 Know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed upon me. |
19:7 Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry aloud, but there is no justice. |
19:8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths. |
19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head. |
19:10 He has broken me on every side, and I am gone, and He has uprooted my hope like a tree. |
19:11 He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy. |
19:12 His troops come together and cast up their way against me, and camp around my tent. |
19:13 He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. |
19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
19:15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. |
19:16 I called my servant, and he gave no answer; though I entreated him with my mouth. |
19:17 My breath is abhorred by my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my body. |
19:18 Yea, even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. |
19:19 All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I have loved have turned against me. |
19:20 My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
19:21 Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has struck me. |
19:22 Why do you persecute me, like God is doing, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
19:23 Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! |
19:24 Oh, that they were cut with an iron pen and lead and engraved in the rock forever! |
19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He shall stand upon the earth in the latter days; |
19:26 And though worms destroy my skin and body, yet apart from my flesh shall I see God— |
19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me. |
19:28 For you ought to say, 'How shall we persecute him?' since the root of the matter is found in me. |
19:29 Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment." |