Job - Chapter 19 | New King James Version

  • 1. Then Job answered and said:
  • 2. "How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
  • 3. These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me. {cf2super [26]}
  • 4. And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.
  • 5. If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,
  • 6. Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
  • 7. "If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, there is no justice.
  • 8. He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.
  • 9. He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
  • 10. He breaks me down on every side, And I am gone; My hope He has uprooted like a tree.
  • 11. He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as one of His enemies.
  • 12. His troops come together And build up their road against me; They encamp all around my tent.
  • 13. "He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
  • 14. My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
  • 15. Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
  • 16. I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
  • 17. My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am repulsive to the children of my own body.
  • 18. Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.
  • 19. All my close friends abhor me, And those whom I love have turned against me.
  • 20. My bone clings 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 struck me!
  • 22. Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • 23. "Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
  • 24. That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!
  • 25. For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
  • 26. And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,
  • 27. Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
  • 28. If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?'-- Since the root of the matter is found in me,
  • 29. Be afraid of the sword for yourselves; For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."
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