19:1   Then Job responded,

19:2  "How long will you torment me And crush me with words?

19:3  "These ten times you have insulted me; You do not feel ashamed to wrong me.

19:4  "Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.

19:5  "If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

19:6  Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.

19:7  "Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but I find no justice.

19:8  "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.

19:9  "He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.

19:10  "He breaks me down on every side, and I leave; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

19:11   "He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.

19:12  "His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.

19:13  "He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances have become completely estranged from me.

19:14  "My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

19:15  "Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.I resemble a foreigner in their sight.

19:16  "I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.

19:17  "My breath seems offensive to my wife, And I have become loathsome to my own brothers.

19:18  "Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.

19:19   "All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.

19:20  "My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

19:21  "Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.

19:22  "Why do you persecute me as God does, And show no satisfaction with my flesh?

19:23  "Oh that I could write my words! Oh that I could write them in a book!

19:24  "That with an iron stylus and lead I could engrave them in the rock forever!

19:25  "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

19:26  "Even after my skin has deteriorated, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

19:27  Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!

19:28  "If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?'

19:29  "Then show fear of the sword for yourselves,For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know a judgment shall come."