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19:1  Then Job answered and said,
19:2  “How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
19:3  These ten times you have disgraced me; you are not ashamed that you have attacked me.
19:4  And what is more, if I have truly erred, my error remains with me.
19:5  If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me,
19:6  know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me with his net.
19:7  “Look, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I cry out, 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 taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head.
19:10  He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,
19:11  and he has kindled his wrath against me, and he has counted me as one of his foes.
19:12  His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.
19:13  “He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.
19:14  My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
19:16  I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must personally plead with him.
19:17  My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
19:18  Little boys also despise me; when I rise, then they talk against me.
19:19  All my intimate friends abhor me, and these whom I have loved have 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  “Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God’s hand has touched me.
19:22  Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  “O that my words could be written down! O that they could be inscribed in a scroll!
19:24  That with a pen of iron and with lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!
19:25  But I myself know that my redeemer is alive, and at the last he will stand up upon the earth.
19:26  And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,
19:27  whom I will see for myself, and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger. My heart faints within me.
19:28  “If you say, ‘How will we persecute him?’ And ‘The root of the trouble is found’ in me,
19:29  be afraid for yourselves because of the sword, for wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”