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, 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 after 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; 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.