Job Chapter 19

19 : 1 Then Job answered and said,

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

19 : 3 These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

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

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

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

19 : 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

19 : 8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot 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 destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.

19 : 11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies.

19 : 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

19 : 13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly 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 an alien in their sight.

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

19 : 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.

19 : 18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

19 : 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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

19 : 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

19 : 22 Why do you 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 stand at the latter day on the earth:

19 : 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

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

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

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