| Chapter 19 |
1 | Then Job answered , and said:
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2 | How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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3 | Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
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4 | For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
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5 | But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
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6 | At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
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7 | Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
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8 | He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
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9 | He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
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10 | He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
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11 | His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
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12 | His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
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13 | He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
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14 | My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
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15 | They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.
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16 | I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
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17 | My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
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18 | Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
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19 | They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.
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20 | The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
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21 | Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
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22 | Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
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23 | Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
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24 | With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
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25 | For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
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26 | And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
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27 | Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
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28 | Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
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29 | Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.
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