19Job 19

CHAP. XIX. / 1 Iob complaining of his friends cruelty, sheweth there is miserie enough in him to feede their crueltie. 21. 28 Hee craueth pitie. 23 He beleeueth the resurrection.

1Then Iob answered, and sayd,Select Job 19:1

2How long will yee vexe my soule, and breake me in pieces with words?Select Job 19:2

3These tenne times haue ye reproched me: you are not ashamed that you make your selues strange to me.Select Job 19:3

4And be it indeed that I haue erred, mine errour remaineth with my selfe.Select Job 19:4

5If indeed yee will magnifie your selues against me, and plead against me my reproch:Select Job 19:5

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

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

8Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes.Select Job 19:8

9Hee hath stript me of my glory, and taken the crowne from my head.Select Job 19:9

10He hath destroyed me on euery side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he remooued like a tree.Select Job 19:10

11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and hee counteth me vnto him as one of his enemies.Select Job 19:11

12His troupes come together, and raise vp their way against me, and encampe round about my tabernacle.Select Job 19:12

13Hee hath put my brethren farre from me, and mine acquaintance are verely estranged from me.Select Job 19:13

14My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me.Select Job 19:14

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

16I called my seruant, and he gaue me no answere: I intreated him with my mouth.Select Job 19:16

17My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body.Select Job 19:17

18Yea, yong children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.Select Job 19:18

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

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

21Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.Select Job 19:21

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

23Oh that my wordes were now written, oh that they were printed in a booke!Select Job 19:23

24That they were grauen with an iron pen and lead, in the rocke for euer.Select Job 19:24

25For I know that my Redeemer liueth, and that he shall stand at the latter day, vpon the earth:Select Job 19:25

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

27Whom I shal see for my selfe, and mine eyes shall beholde, and not another, though my reines bee consumed within me.Select Job 19:27

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

29Bee ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that yee may know there is a iudgement.Select Job 19:29