Job 19

₂How long will ye vex my soul,

And break me in pieces with words?

₃These ten times have ye reproached me:

Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

₄And be it indeed that I have erred,

Mine error remaineth with myself.

₅If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,

And plead against me my reproach:

₆Know now that God hath overthrown me,

And hath compassed me with his net.

₇Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:

I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

₈He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,

And he hath set darkness in my paths.

₉He hath stripped me of my glory,

And taken 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.

₁₁He hath also kindled his wrath against me,

And he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

₁₂His troops come together,

And raise up their way against me,

And encamp round about my tabernacle.

₁₃He hath put my brethren far from me,

And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

₁₄My kinsfolk have failed, 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.

₁₆I called my servant, and he gave me no answer;

I intreated him with my mouth.

₁₇My breath is strange to my wife,

Though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

₁₈Yea, young children despised me;

I arose, and they spake against me.

₁₉All my inward friends abhorred me:

And they whom I loved are turned against me.

₂₀My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,

And I am escaped 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.

₂₂Why do ye persecute me as God,

And are not satisfied with my flesh?

₂₃Oh that my words were now written!

Oh that they were printed in a book!

₂₄That they were graven with an iron pen and lead

In the rock for ever!

₂₅For I know that my redeemer liveth,

And that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

₂₆And though after my skin worms destroy this body,

Yet in my flesh shall I see God:

₂₇Whom I shall see for myself,

And mine eyes shall behold, and not another;

Though my reins be consumed within me.

₂₈But ye should say, Why persecute we him,

Seeing the root of the matter is 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.