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19:1  Job responded, saying:
19:2  “How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?
19:3  Ten times now you have reproached me; you attack me shamelessly.
19:4  But even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.
19:5  If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and prove my humiliation against me,
19:6  then know that God has wronged me and encircled me with His net.
19:7  “Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
19:8  He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has shrouded my path in darkness.
19:9  He has stripped me of my honor, and removed the crown from my head.
19:10  He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
19:11  His anger burns against me, and He considers me among His enemies.
19:12  His troops advance together; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
19:13  “He removed my brothers far from me; my acquaintances are only strangers to me.
19:14  My relatives have gone away and my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  My houseguests and my maidservants consider me a stranger. I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
19:16  I call my servant but he does not reply though I beg him with my own mouth.
19:17  My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my children.
19:18  Even young children despise me; when I stand, they speak against me.
19:19  All my close friends despise me; those I love have turned against me.
19:20  My bones cling to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  “Have pity on me my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22  Why do you pursue me—like God? Are you not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  Oh that my words were written, that they were recorded in a scroll
19:24  that with an iron pen and lead, they were engraved in stone forever!
19:25  “Yet I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end, He will stand on earth.
19:26  Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
19:27  I myself will see Him with my own eyes, I and not a stranger. My heart grows weak within me.
19:28  “If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the matter is found in him;’
19:29  then you should fear the sword for yourselves; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword— so that you may know judgment!”