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19:1  Then Job answered,
19:2  “How long will you make me suffer and crush me with words?
19:3  Ten times you have put me to shame and are not ashamed to wrong me.
19:4  Even if it is true that I have done wrong, it stays with me.
19:5  You put yourselves up high against me, and try to prove my shame to me.
19:6  You will know then that God has wronged me, and has set a trap around me.
19:7  “See, I cry, ‘Someone is hurting me!’ but I get no answer. I call for help, but no one stands for what is right and fair.
19:8  He has built a wall in my way so that I cannot pass. And He has put darkness on my paths.
19:9  He has taken my honor from me, and taken the crown from my head.
19:10  He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone. He has pulled up my hope like a tree.
19:11  He has made His anger burn against me, and thinks of me as one who fights against Him.
19:12  His armies come together and build a path against me. They camp around my tent.
19:13  “He has taken my brothers far away from me and my friends have all left me.
19:14  My brothers have left me, and my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  Those who live in my house and my women servants think of me as a stranger. I am like one from another country in their eyes.
19:16  I call to my servant, but he does not answer. I have to beg him.
19:17  My breath smells bad to my wife, and I am hated by my own brothers.
19:18  Even young children hate me. When I get up they speak against me.
19:19  All my friends hate me. Those I love have turned against me.
19:20  I am only skin and flesh. And I have gotten away only by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Have pity on me. Have pity on me, O you my friends. For the hand of God has hit me.
19:22  Why do you make it hard for me as God does? Have I not suffered enough to please you?
19:23  “If only my words were written! If only they were written down in a book!
19:24  If only they were cut forever into the rock with an iron cutter and lead!
19:25  But as for me, I know that the One Who bought me and made me free from sin lives, and that He will stand upon the earth in the end.
19:26  Even after my skin is destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
19:27  I myself will see Him. With my own eyes I will see Him and not another. My heart becomes weak within me.
19:28  If you say, ‘How will we make it hard for him?’ and, ‘The root of the problem is in him,’
19:29  you should be afraid of the sword for yourselves. For anger is punished by the sword, that you may know there is punishment for wrong-doing.”