Job 19

1Then Job answered and said,

1Then Job replied:

2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

2How long will you torture me and crush me with your words?

3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

3You have insulted me ten times now; you aren't even ashamed of how badly you treat me.

4And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

4Even if I have truly made a mistake, that error is my own business.

5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

5If you really want to act superior to me and use my humiliation as evidence against me,

6Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.

6then realize that God is the one who has wronged me and caught me in his net.

7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

7I shout, 'Violence!' but no one answers; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; he has covered my trails in darkness.

9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

9He has stripped me of my honor and taken the crown off my head.

10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

10He tears me down on every side until I am finished; he has uprooted my hope like a tree.

11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

11His anger burns against me; he treats me like one of his enemies.

12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

12His troops advance together and build a ramp to attack me; they camp all around my tent.

13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

13He has sent my relatives far away from me; my acquaintances have become total strangers.

14My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

14My family has stayed away, and my close friends have forgotten me.

15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

15The guests in my house and even my female servants look at me like a stranger; I am an outsider to them.

16I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, ThoughI entreat him with my mouth.

16I call for my servant, but he doesn't answer, even if I beg him for help.

17My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

17My breath is disgusting to my wife, and my own brothers find me repulsive.

18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

18Even young children despise me; when I stand up, they make fun of me.

19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

19All my best friends hate me; the people I loved most have turned against me.

20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.

21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

21Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy! For the hand of God has struck me.

22Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

22Why do you persecute me just like God does? Haven't you had enough of my suffering?

23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

23I wish that my words were recorded! I wish they were written in a scroll!

24That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

24I wish they were carved into rock forever with an iron tool and filled with lead!

25But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end he will stand upon the earth.

26And after my skin, eventhisbody, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

26Even after my skin has been destroyed, in my flesh I will see God.

27Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

27I will see him for myself; my own eyes will see him, and not as a stranger. My heart faints within me!

28If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

28If you say, 'How we will hunt him down!' and, 'The root of the problem is in him,'

29Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrathbringeththe punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.

29then you should be afraid of the sword yourselves. For God's anger brings the punishment of the sword, so that you will know there is a judgment.