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19:1  Then Job answered:
19:2  “How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?
19:3  These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
19:4  And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.
19:5  If indeed you exalt yourselves against me and plead against me with my disgrace,
19:6  know now that God has bent me and has surrounded me with His net.
19:7  “Look, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
19:8  He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
19:9  He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
19:10  He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; my hope He has uprooted like a tree.
19:11  He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.
19:12  His troops come together and build up their road against me; they set up camp all around my tent.
19:13  “He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
19:14  My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me for a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
19:16  I called my servant, but he gave me no answer; I begged him with my mouth.
19:17  My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to the children of my own body.
19:18  Yes, young children despise me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
19:19  All my close friends abhorred me, and they whom I love are turned against me.
19:20  My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  “Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!
19:22  Why do you persecute me as God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  “Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
19:24  That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
19:25  For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He will stand at last on the earth;
19:26  and after my skin is destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
19:27  whom I will see for myself, and my eyes will behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me.
19:28  “If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ since the root of the matter is found in me,
19:29  be afraid of the sword for yourselves; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”