Job — Chapter 19
King James Version · 29 verses
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1Then Job answered and said,→2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?→3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.→4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.→5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:→6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.→7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.→8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.→9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.→10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.→11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.→12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.→13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.→14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.→15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.→16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.→17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.→18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.→19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.→20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.→21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.→22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?→23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!→24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!→25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:→26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:→27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.→28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?→29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.→