Chapter 19
- 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.
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