AFV2020 - Job - 19

19:1  And Job answered and said,

19:2  "How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?

19:3  These ten times you have blamed me; yet 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 indeed you magnify yourself against me, and plead my reproach against me,

19:6  Know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed upon me.

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

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

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

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

19:11  He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy.

19:12  His troops come together and cast up their way against me, and camp around my tent.

19:13  He has put my brethren 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 maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

19:16  I called my servant, and he gave no answer; though I entreated him with my mouth.

19:17  My breath is abhorred by my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my body.

19:18  Yea, even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.

19:19  All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I have loved have turned against me.

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

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

19:22  Why do you persecute me, like God is doing, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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

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

19:25  For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He shall stand upon the earth in the latter days;

19:26  And though worms destroy my skin and body, yet apart from my flesh shall I see God—

19:27  Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me.

19:28  For you ought to say, 'How shall we persecute him?' since the root of the matter is found in me.

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