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19:1  And Job replied and said,
19:2  How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words?
19:3  These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?
19:4  And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.
19:5  If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me and reprove me of my reproach,
19:6  know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net.
19:7  Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and there shall be no judgment.
19:8  He has walled off my way and I shall not 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 pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.
19:11  He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
19:12  His troops came together and raised up their way over me and encamp round about my tent.
19:13  He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me.
19:14  My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15  Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight.
19:16  I called my slave, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
19:17  My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.
19:18  Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.
19:19  All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.
19:20  My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
19:22  Why do ye 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 graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
19:25  For I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall rise at the latter day over the dust;
19:26  and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:
19:27  whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my kidneys be consumed within me.
19:28  But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in me?
19:29  Be ye afraid of the sword; for the wrath of the sword comes because of the iniquities, that ye may know there is a judgment.