Job 19
Job 19:1
Then Job answered and said,
Job 19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
Job 19:3
These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
Job 19:4
And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
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Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.
Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:8
He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
Job 19:10
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.
Job 19:12
His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16
I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth.
Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
Job 19:18
Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
Job 19:19
All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:23
Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Job 19:24
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
Job 19:25
But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
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And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
Job 19:27
Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
Job 19:28
If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
Job 19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.