Job 19

19Then Job answered and said,

²How long will ye vex my soul,

And break me in pieces with words?

³These ^aten times have ye reproached me:

Ye are not ashamed that ye ^||make yourselves strange to me.

⁴And be it indeed that I have erred,

Mine error remaineth with myself.

⁵If indeed ye will ^bmagnify yourselves against me,

And plead against me my reproach:

⁶Know now that God hath ^coverthrown me,

And hath compassed me with his net.

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

^dI cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

^8eHe hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,

And he hath set darkness in my paths.

^9fHe hath stripped me of my glory,

And taken ^gthe crown from my head.

¹⁰He hath destroyed me on every side, and ^hI am gone:

And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

¹¹He hath also kindled his wrath against me,

And he ⁱcounteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

^12jHis troops come together,

And ^kraise up their way against me,

And encamp round about my ^ltabernacle.

¹³He hath put my ^mbrethren far from me,

And mine ⁿacquaintance are verily estranged from me.

¹⁴My ^okinsfolk have failed,

And my ^pfamiliar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵They that ^qdwell in mine house, and my maids,

Count me for a stranger:

I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶I called my servant, and he gave me no answer;

I intreated him with my mouth.

^17rMy breath is strange to my wife,

Though I intreated for the children’s sake of ^†mine own body.

¹⁸Yea, ^||young children despised me;

I arose, and ^sthey spake against me.

^19tAll ^†my inward friends abhorred me:

And they whom I loved are turned against me.

^20uMy bone cleaveth to my skin ^||and to my flesh,

And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

^21xHave pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;

For ^ythe hand of God hath touched me.

²²Why do ye ^zpersecute me as God,

And ^aare not satisfied with my flesh?

^23†Oh that my words were now written!

Oh that they ^bwere printed in a ^cbook!

²⁴That they were graven ^dwith an iron pen and lead

In the rock ^efor ever!

²⁵For ^fI know that my ^gredeemer liveth,

And that he shall stand at ^hthe latter day ⁱupon the earth:

^26||And though after my skin worms ^kdestroy this body,

Yet ^lin my flesh shall I see God:

²⁷Whom I shall see ^mfor myself,

And mine eyes shall behold, and not ^†another;

^||Though my reins ⁿbe consumed ^†within me.

^28oBut ye should say, Why ^ppersecute we him,

^||Seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

²⁹Be ye afraid of ^qthe sword:

For wrath bringeth ^rthe punishments of the sword,

That ye may know ^sthere is a judgment.