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