Job


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 Then Job answered and said,


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 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?


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 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.


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 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.


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 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:


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 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.


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 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.


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 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.


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 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.


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 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.


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 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.


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 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.


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 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.


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 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.


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 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.


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 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.


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 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.


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 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.


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 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.


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 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.


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 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.


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 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?


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 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!


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 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!


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 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:


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 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:


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 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.


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 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing 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.