ACV - Job - 19

19:1  Then Job answered, and said,

19:2  How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

19:3  These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

19:4  And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

19:5  If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

19:6  know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.

19:7  Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

19:8  He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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

19:10  He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.

19:11  He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.

19:12  His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.

19:13  He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

19:14  My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

19:15  Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

19:16  I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth.

19:17  My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.

19:18  Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

19:19  All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.

19:20  My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

19:21  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

19:22  Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

19:23  O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,

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

19:25  But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.

19:26  And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,

19:27  whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

19:28  If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,

19:29  be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.