Job 19
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- 1Then Job answered and said,
- 2How long will you trouble my soul and break me in pieces with words?
- 3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you alienate yourselves from me.
- 4And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
- 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,
- 6then know that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with his net.
- 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- 8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
- 9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
- 10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope he has removed like a tree.
- 11He has also kindled his wrath against me and counts me to him as one of his enemies.
- 12His troops come together and set their path against me, and they camp around my tent.
- 13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me.
- 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
- 15Those who dwell in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
- 16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth.
- 17My breath is strange to my wife, even though I pleaded for the sake of my own children.
- 18Even young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
- 19All my closest friends abhorred me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
- 20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- 21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
- 22Why do you persecute me as if you were 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 engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
- 25For I know that my redeemer lives, 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 I shall see God,
- 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
- 28But you should say, 'Why do we persecute him?' seeing that the root of the matter is found in me.
- 29Be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."