19:2 How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
19:3 These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
19:4 And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself.
19:5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
19:6 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
19:7 Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
19:8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
19:10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.
19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.
19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way 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, and my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
19:16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
19:17 My breath is repulsive to my wife, though I make supplication for the children of my own body.
19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
19:19 All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.
19:20 My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
19:22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
19:24 That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
19:25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
19:26 And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in 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 But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
19:29 Be yourselves afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.
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