Job Chapter 19
| 1 | Then Job answered and said, | 2 | How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | 3 | These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. | 4 | And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. | 5 | If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: | 6 | Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. | 7 | Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. | 8 | He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. | 9 | He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | 10 | He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. | 11 | He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. | 12 | His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. | 13 | He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. | 14 | My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. | 15 | They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. | 16 | I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. | 17 | My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. | 18 | Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. | 19 | All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. | 20 | My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. | 21 | Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. | 22 | Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | 23 | Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! | 24 | That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! | 25 | For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: | 26 | And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: | 27 | Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. | 28 | But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? | 29 | Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. |