• Job 19:1

    Then Job answered and said,

  • Job 19:2

    How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

  • Job 19:3

    These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

  • Job 19:4

    And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

  • Job 19:5

    If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

  • Job 19:6

    Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

  • Job 19:7

    Behold, I cry out of wrong,a but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • Job 19:8

    He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 19:9

    He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 19:10

    He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

  • Job 19:11

    He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

  • Job 19:12

    His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

  • Job 19:13

    He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

  • Job 19:14

    My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

  • Job 19:15

    They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

  • Job 19:16

    I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

  • Job 19:17

    My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

  • Job 19:18

    Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

  • Job 19:19

    All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

  • Job 19:20

    My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • Job 19:21

    Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

  • Job 19:22

    Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • Job 19:23

    Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

  • Job 19:24

    That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

  • Job 19:25

    For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

  • Job 19:26

    And though afterb my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

  • Job 19:27

    Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another;c though my reins be consumed within me.

  • Job 19:28

    But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

  • Job 19:29

    Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

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