19:1 Then Job answered and said,
19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that
the Lord has dealt with me thus.
19:3 Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
19:4 Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself)
in having spoken words which it was not right [to speak]; and my words err,
and are unreasonable.
19:5 But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with
reproach.
19:6 Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised
his bulwark against me.
19:7 Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but
[there is] nowhere judgment.
19:8 I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set
darkness before my face.
19:9 And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my
head.
19:10 He has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope
like a tree.
19:11 And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an
enemy.
19:12 His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed
my ways.
19:13 My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers
[rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless.
19:14 My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my
name, have forgotten me.
19:15 [As for] my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before
them.
19:16 I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated
[him].
19:17 And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my
concubines.
19:18 But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against
me.
19:19 They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose
up against me.
19:20 My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my]
teeth.
19:21 Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has
touched me.
19:22 Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not
satisfied with my flesh?
19:23 For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a
book forever,
19:24 with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
19:25 For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,
19:26 [and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these
[sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;
19:27 which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not
another, but all have been fulfilled to me in [my] bosom.
19:28 But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and [so] find
the root of the matter in him?
19:29 Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors;
and then shall they know where their substance is. |
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 have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make
yourselves strange to 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 God hath overthrown me, and hath 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 hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he 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 destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath
he removed like a tree.
19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto 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 hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me.
19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwell in mine 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 intreated him with my
mouth.
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's
sake of mine own body.
19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19:19 All my inward friends abhorred 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
God hath 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 liveth, and that he shall stand at the
latter day upon 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 mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; though my reins be consumed within me.
19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing 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. |