Jubilee2000 - Job - 19

19:1  And Job replied and said,

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

19:3  These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?

19:4  And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.

19:5  If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me and reprove me of my reproach,

19:6  know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net.

19:7  Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and [there] shall be no judgment.

19:8  He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he 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 pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.

19:11  He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as [one of] his enemies.

19:12  His troops came together and raised up their way over me and encamp round about my tent.

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

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

19:15  Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight.

19:16  I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

19:17  My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.

19:18  Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.

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

19:20  My bones cleave 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 God has touched me.

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

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

19:24  That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

19:25  For I know [that] my redeemer lives and [that] he shall rise at the latter [day] over the dust;

19:26  and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:

19:27  whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, [though] my kidneys be consumed within me.

19:28  But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in me?

19:29  Be ye afraid of the sword; for the wrath of the sword [comes] because of the iniquities, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.: