Job 19

1 Job 19:1 Then Job responded,

2 Job 19:2 “How long will you torment me And crush me with words?

3 Job 19:3 “These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.

4 Job 19:4 “Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.

5 Job 19:5 “If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

6 Job 19:6 Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.

7 Job 19:7 “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.

8 Job 19:8 “He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.

9 Job 19:9 “He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.

10 Job 19:10 “He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

11 Job 19:11 “He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.

12 Job 19:12 “His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.

13 Job 19:13 “He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

14 Job 19:14 “My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

15 Job 19:15 “Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.

16 Job 19:16 “I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.

17 Job 19:17 “My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

18 Job 19:18 “Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.

19 Job 19:19 “All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.

20 Job 19:20 “My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

21 Job 19:21 “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.

22 Job 19:22 “Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 Job 19:23 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

24 Job 19:24 “That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

25 Job 19:25 “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

26 Job 19:26 “Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

27 Job 19:27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!

28 Job 19:28 “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

29 Job 19:29 “Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”