Job 19
1Then Job answered and said, 1
2How long will ye vex my soul, 1 And destroy me with words? 1 Only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus. 1
3Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me. 1
4a In having spoken words which it was not right to speak; 1 And my words err, and are unseasonable. 1
5But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, 1 And insult me with reproach. 1
6Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, 1 And has raised his bulwark against me. 1
7Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: 1 Or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment. 1
8I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: 1 He has set darkness before my face. 1
9And he has stripped me of my glory, 1 And has taken the crown from my head. 1
10He has torn me round about, and I am gone: 1 And he has cut off my hope like a tree. 1
11And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, 1 And has counted me for an enemy. 1
12His troops also came upon me with one accord, 1 Liers in wait compassed my ways. 1
13My brethren have stood aloof from me; 1 They have recognized strangers rather than me: 1 And my friends have become pitiless. 1
14My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, 1 And they that knew my name have forgotten me. 1
15As for my household, and my maidservants, 1 I was a stranger before them. 1
16I called my servant, and he hearkened not; 1 And my mouth entreated him. 1
17And I besought my wife, 1 And earnestly entreated the sons of my concubines. 1
18But they rejected me forever; 1 Whenever I rise up, they speak against me. 1
19They that saw me abhorred me: 1 The very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me. 1
20My flesh is corrupt under my skin, 1 And my bones are held in my teeth. 1
21Pity me, pity me, O friends; 1 For it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me. 1
22Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, 1 And are not satisfied with my flesh? 1
23For oh that my words were written, 1 And that they were recorded in a book forever, 1
24With an iron pen and lead, 1 Or graven in the rocks! 1
25For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, 1
26And to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: 1 For these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; 1
27Which I am conscious of in myself, 1 Which mine eye has seen, and not another, 1 But all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom. 1
28But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, 1 And so find the root of the matter in him? 1
29Do ye also beware of deceit: 1 For wrath will come upon transgressors; 1 And then shall they know where their substance is.