JPS - Job - 19

19:1  Then Job answered and said:

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

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

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

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

19:6  Know now that G-d hath subverted my cause, and hath compassed me with His net.

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

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

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

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

19:11  He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of 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 hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

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

19:15  They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am become an alien in their sight.

19:16  I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, though I entreat him with my mouth.

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

19:18  Even urchins despised me; if I arise, they speak against me.

19:19  All my intimate friends abhor me; and they whom I loved are turned against me.

19:20  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am 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 G-d hath touched me.

19:22  Why do ye persecute me as G-d, 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  That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

19:25  But as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He will witness at the last upon the dust;

19:26  And when after my skin this is destroyed, then without my flesh shall I see G-d;

19:27  Whom I, even I, shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another's. My reins are consumed within me.

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

19:29  Be ye afraid of the sword; for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.