19Job 19

1And Job answereth and saith: --Select Job 19:1

2Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?Select Job 19:2

3These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me--Select Job 19:3

4And also--truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.Select Job 19:4

5If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;Select Job 19:5

6Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,Select Job 19:6

7Lo, I cry out--violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.Select Job 19:7

8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.Select Job 19:8

9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.Select Job 19:9

10He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.Select Job 19:10

11And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.Select Job 19:11

12Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.Select Job 19:12

13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.Select Job 19:13

14Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,Select Job 19:14

15Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.Select Job 19:15

16To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.Select Job 19:16

17My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.Select Job 19:17

18Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.Select Job 19:18

19Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.Select Job 19:19

20To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.Select Job 19:20

21Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.Select Job 19:21

22Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?Select Job 19:22

23Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?Select Job 19:23

24With a pen of iron and lead--For ever in a rock they may be hewn.Select Job 19:24

25That--I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.Select Job 19:25

26And after my skin hath compassed this body , Then from my flesh I see God:Select Job 19:26

27Whom I--I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.Select Job 19:27

28But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.Select Job 19:28

29Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious are the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that there is a judgment.Select Job 19:29