| 19 | Job | ||
| 1 | Then Job answered: | Job. Jb.19.1-29 | |
| 2 | "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words? | ||
| 3 | These ten 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 magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me, | ||
| 6 | know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me. | ||
| 7 | Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice. | ||
| 8 | He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. | ||
| 9 | He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head. | ||
| 10 | He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. | ||
| 11 | He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary. | ||
| 12 | His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent. | ||
| 13 | "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. | ||
| 14 | My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me; | ||
| 15 | the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes. | ||
| 16 | I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth. | ||
| 17 | I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother. | ||
| 18 | Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. | ||
| 19 | All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. | ||
| 20 | My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. | ||
| 21 | Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! | ||
| 22 | Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? | ||
| 23 | "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | ||
| 24 | Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! | ||
| 25 | For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth; | ||
| 26 | and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God, | ||
| 27 | whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! | ||
| 28 | If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him'; | ||
| 29 | be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment." | ||
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