Job 19

1And Job made answer and said,

1Then Job answered and said,

2How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

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

3Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

4And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

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

5If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

6Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

7Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

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

10I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

11His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

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

12His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

13He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

14My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

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

15I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

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

16At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

18Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

19All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

20My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

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

21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

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

22Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

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

23If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

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

24And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

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

25But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

26And ... without my flesh I will see God;

26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

27Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

28If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

29Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.