Geneva1599 - Job - 19

19:1  Bvt Iob answered, and said,

19:2  Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?

19:3  Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.

19:4  And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.

19:5  But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,

19:6  Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.

19:7  Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

19:8  Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

19:9  Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.

19:10  He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.

19:11  And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.

19:12  His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.

19:13  He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.

19:14  My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.

19:15  They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.

19:16  I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.

19:17  My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.

19:18  The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.

19:19  All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.

19:20  My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.

19:21  Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.

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

19:23  Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

19:24  And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!

19:25  For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.

19:26  And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.

19:27  Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.

19:28  But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.

19:29  Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.