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