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19:1  2 Job reproveth his friends,  8 and reciteth his miseries and grievous pains. 25 He assureth himself of the general resurrection. But Job answered, and said,
19:2  How long will ye vex my soul, and torment me with words?
19:3  Ye have now ten times reproached me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward me.
19:4  And though I had indeed erred, mine error remaineth with me.
19:5  But indeed if ye will advance yourselves against me, and rebuke me for my reproach,
19:6  Know now, that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
19:7  Behold, I cry out of violence, but I have none answer: I cry, but there is no judgment.
19:8  He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
19:9  He hath spoiled me of mine honor, and taken the crown away from mine head.
19:10  He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and he hath removed mine hope like a tree.
19:11  And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth me as one of his enemies.
19:12  His armies came together, and made their way upon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
19:13  He hath removed my brethren far from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers unto me.
19:14  My neighbors have forsaken me, and my familiars have forgotten me.
19:15  They that dwell in mine house, and my maids took me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
19:16  I called my servant, but he would not answer, though I prayed him with my mouth.
19:17  My breath was strange unto my wife, though I prayed her for the children’s sake of mine own body.
19:18  The wicked also despised me, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19:19  All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved, are turned against me.
19:20  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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 hath 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 written even in a book,
19:24  And graven with an iron pen in lead, or in stone forever!
19:25  For I am sure that my Redeemer liveth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
19:26  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
19:27  Whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes shall behold, and none other for me, though my reins are consumed within me.
19:28  But ye said, Why is he persecuted? And there was a deep matter in me.
19:29  Be ye afraid of the sword: for the sword will be avenged of wickedness, that ye may know that there is a judgment.