The Book of Job

Chapter-19

Job 19:1 But Job answered by saying:

 

Job 19:2 How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?

 

Job 19:3 So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me.

 

Job 19:4 Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me.

 

Job 19:5 But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace.

 

Job 19:6 At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges.

 

Job 19:7 Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.

 

Job 19:8 He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.

 

Job 19:9 He has plundered me of my glory, and he has stolen the crown from my head.

 

Job 19:10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope.

 

Job 19:11 His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy.

 

Job 19:12 His troops have gathered together, and they have made their way to me, and they have besieged my tabernacle all around.

 

Job 19:13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers.

 

Job 19:14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me.

 

Job 19:15 The inhabitants of my house and my maidservants treat me just as if I were a stranger, and I have been like an sojourner in their eyes.

 

Job 19:16 I called my servant, and he did not respond; I pleaded with him with my own mouth.

 

Job 19:17 My wife has shuddered at my breath, and I have begged the sons of my loins.

 

Job 19:18 Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me.

 

Job 19:19 Those who were sometime my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me.

 

Job 19:20 Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth.

 

Job 19:21 Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me.

 

Job 19:22 Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh?

 

Job 19:23 Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,

 

Job 19:24 with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone?

 

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.

 

Job 19:26 And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

 

Job 19:27 It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom.

 

Job 19:28 Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”

 

Job 19:29 So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment.