Job - Chapter 19 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Then Job answered and said,
  • 2. How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
  • 3. These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
  • 4. And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
  • 5. If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
  • 6. Know now that God hath subverted me {cf15i in my cause}, And hath compassed me with his net.
  • 7. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
  • 8. He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
  • 9. He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
  • 10. He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
  • 11. He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as {cf15i one of} his adversaries.
  • 12. His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
  • 13. He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
  • 14. My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
  • 15. They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
  • 16. I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, {cf15i Though} I entreat him with my mouth.
  • 17. My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
  • 18. Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
  • 19. All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
  • 20. My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
  • 21. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
  • 22. Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • 23. Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
  • 24. That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
  • 25. But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
  • 26. And after my skin, {cf15i even} this {cf15i body}, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
  • 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.
  • 28. If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
  • 29. Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath {cf15i bringeth} the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.
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