19Job 19

1Then Job answered and said,Select Job 19:1

2How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?Select Job 19:2

3These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.Select Job 19:3

4And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.Select Job 19:4

5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:Select Job 19:5

6Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.Select Job 19:6

7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.Select Job 19:7

8He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.Select Job 19:8

9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.Select Job 19:9

10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.Select Job 19:10

11He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies.Select Job 19:11

12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.Select Job 19:12

13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly estranged from me.Select Job 19:13

14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.Select Job 19:14

15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.Select Job 19:15

16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.Select Job 19:16

17My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children’s sake of my own body.Select Job 19:17

18Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.Select Job 19:18

19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.Select Job 19:19

20My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.Select Job 19:20

21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.Select Job 19:21

22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?Select Job 19:22

23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!Select Job 19:23

24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!Select Job 19:24

25For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day on the earth:Select Job 19:25

26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:Select Job 19:26

27Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.Select Job 19:27

28But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?Select Job 19:28

29Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.Select Job 19:29