19:1  THEN JOB answered:

19:2  How long will you vex {and} torment me and break me in pieces with words?

19:3  These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange [harden yourselves against me and deal severely with me].

19:4  And if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me [I would be conscious of it].

19:5  If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach {and} humiliation,

19:6  Know that God has overthrown {and} put me in the wrong and has closed His net about me.

19:7  Behold, I cry out, Violence! but I am not heard; I cry aloud for help, but there is no justice.

19:8  He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths.

19:9  He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

19:10  He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree.

19:11  He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries.

19:12  His troops come together and cast up their way {and} siege works against me and encamp round about 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 me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

19:15  Those who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

19:16  I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words.

19:17  I am repulsive to my wife and loathsome to the children of my own mother.

19:18  Even young children despise me; when I get up, they speak against me.

19:19  All the men of my council {and} my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I loved are turned against me.

19:20  My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin {or} gums of my teeth.

19:21  Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

19:22  Why do you, as if you were God, pursue {and} persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

19:23  Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book [carved on a tablet of stone]!

19:24  That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!

19:25  For I know that my Redeemer {and} Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth.

19:26  And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh {or} without it I shall see God,

19:27  Whom I, even I, shall see for myself {and} on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away {and} is consumed within me.

19:28  If you say, How we will pursue him! [and continue to persecute me with the claim] that the root [cause] of all these [afflictions] is found in me,

19:29  Then beware {and} be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance], for wrathful are the punishments of that sword, that you may know there is a judgment.