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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 deal hardly with me.
19:4  And be it 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 subverted me in my cause, and hath compassed me with his net.
19:7  Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no judgment.
19:8  He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and 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 broken me down on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
19:11  He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.
19:12  His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
19:13  He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly 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 for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
19:16  I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, though I entreat him with my mouth.
19:17  My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the children of my mother's womb.
19:18  Even young children despise me; if I arise, they speak against me.
19:19  All my inward friends abhor me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
19:20  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am 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 inscribed in a book!
19:24  That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
19:25  But I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand up at the last upon the earth:
19:26  And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, yet from my flesh shall I see God:
19:27  Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. My reins are consumed within me.
19:28  If ye say, How we will persecute him! seeing that 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.