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19:1  In response, Job said:
19:2  "How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?
19:3  Ten times you've tried to humiliate me! You're not ashamed to wrong me!
19:4  Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.
19:5  If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,
19:6  then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."
19:7  "Although I cried out 'Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.
19:8  He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.
19:9  "He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!
19:10  He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.
19:11  His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary.
19:12  His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."
19:13  "My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;
19:14  my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.
19:15  Those who live in my house— and my maidservants, too!— treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.
19:16  "I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly.
19:17  My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!
19:18  Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.
19:19  My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.
19:20  I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."
19:21  "Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.
19:22  Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?
19:23  If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book
19:24  using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.
19:25  "As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.
19:26  Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,
19:27  whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won't be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire."
19:28  "When you're thinking about asking yourselves, 'How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'
19:29  Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."