Home Master Index
←Prev   Job 19 as rendered by/in  Next→ 


19:1  Then Job answered and said,
19:2  “How long will you torment my soul And crush me with words?
19:3  These ten times you have dishonored me; You are not ashamed that you wrong me.
19:4  Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.
19:5  If truly you magnify yourselves against me And argue 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 there is 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 am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
19:11  He has also kindled His anger against me And counted me as His adversary.
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 are completely estranged from me.
19:14  My relatives have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15  Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count me a stranger. I am 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 is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
19:18  Even young children reject me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
19:19  All the men of my counsel 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 smitten me.
19:22  Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
19:24  That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
19:25  As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world.
19:26  Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall behold 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 the root of the matter is found in him?’
19:29  Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”