The Book of Job

19: 1Then Job answered and said,

 ^19:2How long will ye vex my soul,

 And break me in pieces with words?

 ^19:3These ten times have ye reproached me:

 Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

 ^19:4And be it indeed that I have erred,

 Mine error remaineth with myself.

 ^19:5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,

 And plead against me my reproach;

 ^19:6Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause,

 And hath compassed me with his net.
 
 

 ^19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:

 I cry for help, but there is no justice.

 ^19:8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,

 And hath set darkness in my paths.

 ^19:9He hath stripped me of my glory,

 And taken the crown from my head.

 ^19:10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;

 And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

 ^19:11He hath also kindled his wrath against me,

 And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

 ^19:12His troops come on together,

 And cast up their way against me,

 And encamp round about my tent.

 ^19:13He hath put my brethren far from me,

 And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

 ^19:14My kinsfolk have failed,

 And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

 ^19:15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger;

 I am an alien in their sight.

 ^19:16I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,

 Though I entreat him with my mouth.

 ^19:17My breath is strange to my wife,

 And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

 ^19:18Even young children despise me;

 If I arise, they speak against me.

 ^19:19All my familiar friends abhor me,

 And they whom I loved are turned against me.

 ^19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,

 And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

 ^19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;

 For the hand of God hath touched me.

 ^19:22Why do ye persecute me as God,

 And are not satisfied with my flesh?
 
 

 ^19:23Oh that my words were now written!

 Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

 ^19:24That with an iron pen and lead

 They were graven in the rock for ever!

 ^19:25But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth,

 And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

 ^19:26And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed,

 Then without my flesh shall I see God;

 ^19:27Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side,

 And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.

 My heart is consumed within me.

 ^19:28If ye say, How we will persecute him!

 And that the root of the matter is found in me;

 ^19:29Be ye afraid of the sword:

 For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,

 That ye may know there is a judgment.