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19:1  Then Job answered and said:
19:2  “How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
19:3  These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
19:4  And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
19:5  If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
19:6  know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
19:7  Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call 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 from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.
19:10  He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
19:11  He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
19:12  His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp round my tent.
19:13  “He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
19:14  My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
19:16  I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
19:17  My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
19:18  Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
19:19  All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
19:20  My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
19:22  Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
19:24  Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock for ever!
19:25  For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
19:26  And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
19:27  whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
19:28  If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him’,
19:29  be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgement.”