LITV - Job - 19

19:1  And Job answered and said:

19:2  Until when will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?

19:3  And this, ten times you have shamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

19:4  And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.

19:5  If truly you magnify yourself against me, and plead my misery against me,

19:6  know now that God has overthrown me and His net has closed on me.

19:7  Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

19:8  He has fenced up my path so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness on my paths.

19:9  He has stripped me of my honor, and He has taken the crown from my head.

19:10  He has broken me on every side, and I go; and He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

19:11  And also His wrath glows against me, and to Himself He counts me as His foe.

19:12  His troops come together and they heap up their way against me; and they camp around my tent.

19:13  He has put my brothers from me; and my knowers are truly alienated from me.

19:14  My near ones have fallen away, and my friends have forgotten me.

19:15  The tenants in my house, even my slave-girls, count me as a foreigner; I am an alien in their eyes.

19:16  I called my servant, but he does not answer; I must beg him with my mouth.

19:17  My breath is strange to my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my mother's womb.

19:18  Even young children despise me; I rise, and they speak against me.

19:19  All the men of my counsel detest me; even this one I loved has turned against me.

19:20  My bone clings on my skin and on my flesh; and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

19:21  Have pity on me! Have pity on me, you my friends. For the hand of God has touched me.

19:22  Why do you pursue me, as God does , and are not satisfied with my flesh?

19:23  Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were engraved in a book!

19:24  Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

19:25  For I know my Redeemer is living, and He shall rise on the earth at the last;

19:26  and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh, yet this, I shall see God,

19:27  whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and no stranger; though my reins be exhausted in my bosom.

19:28  For you may say, Why do we persecute him? And the root of the matter is found in me.

19:29  Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for fury brings punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.