CPDV - Job - 19

19:1  But Job answered by saying:

19:2  How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?

19:3  So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me.

19:4  Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me.

19:5  But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace.

19:6  At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges.

19:7  Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.

19:8  He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.

19:9  He has plundered me of my glory, and he has stolen the crown from my head.

19:10  He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope.

19:11  His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy.

19:12  His troops have gathered together, and they have made their way to me, and they have besieged my tabernacle all around.

19:13  He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers.

19:14  My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me.

19:15  The inhabitants of my house and my maidservants treat me just as if I were a stranger, and I have been like a sojourner in their eyes.

19:16  I called my servant, and he did not respond; I pleaded with him with my own mouth.

19:17  My wife has shuddered at my breath, and I have begged the sons of my loins.

19:18  Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me.

19:19  Those who were sometimes my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me.

19:20  Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth.

19:21  Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me.

19:22  Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh?

19:23  Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,

19:24  with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone?

19:25  For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.

19:26  And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

19:27  It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom.

19:28  Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”

19:29  So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment.