Job19:1 Then Job responded,
Job19:2 "How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
Job19:3 "These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
Job19:4 "Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.
Job19:5 "If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
Job19:6 Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
Job19:7 "Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
Job19:8 "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
Job19:9 "He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
Job19:10 "He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
Job19:11 "He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.
Job19:12 "His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
Job19:13 "He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
Job19:14 "My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
Job19:15 "Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
Job19:16 "I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.
Job19:17 "My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
Job19:18 "Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.
Job19:19 "All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.
Job19:20 "My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
Job19:21 "Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.
Job19:22 "Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job19:23 "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Job19:24 "That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
Job19:25 "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
Job19:26 "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
Job19:27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
Job19:28 "If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?'
Job19:29 "Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."