Job Capítulo 19
The question" Why do innocent people suffer?" Is addressed in this biblical story.
A Conservative Version
19 : 1 Then Job answered, and said,
19 : 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
19 : 3 These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
19 : 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
19 : 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
19 : 6 know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
19 : 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
19 : 8 He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and 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 broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.
19 : 11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as 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 has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
19 : 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19 : 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
19 : 16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth.
19 : 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.
19 : 18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19 : 19 All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.
19 : 20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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 O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,
19 : 24 that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!
19 : 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
19 : 26 And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
19 : 27 whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
19 : 28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,
19 : 29 be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.