19Job 19

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

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

3Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.Select Job 19:3

4For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.Select Job 19:4

5But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.Select Job 19:5

6At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.Select Job 19:6

7Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.Select Job 19:7

8He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.Select Job 19:8

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

10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.Select Job 19:10

11His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.Select Job 19:11

12His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.Select Job 19:12

13He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.Select Job 19:13

14My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.Select Job 19:14

15They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.Select Job 19:15

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

17My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.Select Job 19:17

18Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.Select Job 19:18

19They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.Select Job 19:19

20The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.Select Job 19:20

21Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.Select Job 19:21

22Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?Select Job 19:22

23Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?Select Job 19:23

24With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone?Select Job 19:24

25For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.Select Job 19:25

26And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.Select Job 19:26

27Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.Select Job 19:27

28Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?Select Job 19:28

29Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.Select Job 19:29