Job 19 — American Standard Version

Then Job answered and said,● How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?● These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.● And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.● If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;● Know now that God hath subverted me `in my cause', And hath compassed me with his net.● Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.● He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.● He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.● He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.● He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as `one of' his adversaries.● His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.● He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.● My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.● They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.● I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, `Though' I entreat him with my mouth.● My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.● Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.● All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.● My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.● Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.● Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?● Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!● That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!● But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:● And after my skin, `even' this `body', is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;● Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.● If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;● Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath `bringeth' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.●