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19:1  Then Job answered and said:
19:2  “How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
19:3  These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
19:4  And if it be indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
19:5  If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
19:6  know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with His net.
19:7  “Behold, I cry out because of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
19:8  He hath fenced up my way, that I cannot pass, and He hath set darkness in my paths.
19:9  He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
19:10  He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and mine hope hath He removed like a tree.
19:11  He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of His enemies.
19:12  His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
19:13  “He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintances are verily estranged from me.
19:14  My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15  They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
19:16  I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
19:17  My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the sake of the children of my own body.
19:18  Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
19:19  All my intimate 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 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 liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth;
19:26  and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God,
19:27  whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me.
19:28  “But should ye say, ‘Why persecute we him?’—seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
19:29  Be ye afraid of the sword; for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.”