Job 19

1Then Job answered and said,

1And Job answereth and saith: --

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

2Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

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

3These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me--

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

4And also--truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

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

5If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

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

6Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

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

7Lo, I cry out--violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

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

8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

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

9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

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

10He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

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

11And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

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

12Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

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

13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

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

14Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,

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

15Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.

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

16To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.

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

17My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my <FI>mother's<Fi> womb.

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

18Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

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

19Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

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

20To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with 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.

21Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

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

22Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

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

23Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

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

24With a pen of iron and lead--For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

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

25That--I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

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

26And after my skin hath compassed this <FI>body<Fi> , Then from my flesh I see God:

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

27Whom I--I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

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

28But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

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

29Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious <FI>are<Fi> the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that <FI>there is<Fi> a judgment.