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19:1  Then Job answered:
19:2  How long will you vex and torment me and break me in pieces with words?
19:3  These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange [harden yourselves against me and deal severely with me].
19:4  And if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me [I would be conscious of it].
19:5  If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach and humiliation,
19:6  Know that God has overthrown and put me in the wrong and has closed His net about me.
19:7  Behold, I cry out, Violence! but I am not heard; I cry aloud for help, but there is no justice.
19:8  He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths.
19:9  He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
19:10  He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree.
19:11  He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries.
19:12  His troops come together and cast up their way and siege works 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 me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15  Those who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
19:16  I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words.
19:17  I am repulsive to my wife and loathsome to the children of my own mother.
19:18  Even young children despise me; when I get up, they speak against me.
19:19  All the men of my council and my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I loved are turned against me.
19:20  My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin or gums of my teeth.
19:21  Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
19:22  Why do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book [carved on a tablet of stone]!
19:24  That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!
19:25  For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth.
19:26  And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh or without it I shall see God,
19:27  Whom I, even I, shall see for myself and on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away and is consumed within me.
19:28  If you say, How we will pursue him! [and continue to persecute me with the claim] that the root [cause] of all these [afflictions] is found in me,
19:29  Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance], for wrathful are the punishments of that sword, that you may know there is a judgment.