Job 19:1–12

Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives

19 Then Job answered and said:

2  “How long will you torment me

and break me in pieces with words?

3  These wten times you have cast reproach upon me;

are you not ashamed to wrong me?

4  And even if it be true that I have erred,

my error remains with myself.

5  If indeed you xmagnify yourselves against me

and make my disgrace an argument against me,

6  know then that God has yput me in the wrong

and closed his net about me.

7  Behold, I zcry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;

I call for help, but there is no justice.

8  He has awalled up my way, so that I cannot pass,

and he has set darkness upon my paths.

9  He has bstripped from me my glory

and taken the ccrown from my head.

10  He breaks me down on every side, and I dam gone,

and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

11  He has kindled his wrath against me

and ecounts me as his adversary.

12  His ftroops come on together;

they have gcast up their siege ramp1 against me

and encamp around my tent.