Job 19
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1 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break
me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me:
ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4 And be it indeed that I have
erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves
against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me,
and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not
heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way
that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and
taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and
I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against
me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up
their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me,
and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my
familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my
maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me
no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though
I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I
arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and
they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my
flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O
ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are
not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now
written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen
and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer
liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine
eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within
me.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we
him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth
the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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