Job 19

Revised Geneva Translation

19 But Job answered, and said,

² “How long will you grieve my soul, and torment me with words?

³ “You have now reproached me ten times and are not ashamed. You are impudent toward me.

⁴ “And though I had indeed erred, my error remains with me.

⁵ “But, indeed, if you will advance yourselves against me and rebuke me for my disgrace,

⁶ “know, now, that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

⁷ “Behold, I cry out from violence, but I have no answer. I cry, but there is no justice.

⁸ “He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass. And He has set darkness in my paths.

⁹ “He has stripped me of my honor, and taken the crown away from my head.

¹⁰ “He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone. And He has removed my hope like a tree.

¹¹ “And He has kindled His wrath against me, and counts me as one of His enemies.

¹² “His armies came together and made their way upon me and camped around my tabernacle.

¹³ “He has removed my brethren far from me, and also my acquaintances were strangers to me.

¹⁴ “My neighbors have forsaken me, and my close friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ “Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, took me for a stranger. For I was a stranger in their sight.

¹⁶ “I called my servant, but he would not answer. I begged him with my mouth.

¹⁷ “My breath was strange to my wife, though I begged her for the sake of the children of my own body.

¹⁸ “The wicked also despised me. When I arose, they spoke against me.

¹⁹ “All my secret friends abhorred me. And those whom I loved have turned against me.

²⁰ “My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ “Have pity upon me. Have pity upon me, O you my friends. For the Hand of God has touched me.

²² “Why do you persecute me, as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were written even in a book,

²⁴ “engraved with an iron pen in lead, or in stone, forever!

²⁵ “For I am sure that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand the last on the Earth.

²⁶ “And even after my skin is destroyed, I shall still see God in my flesh,

²⁷ “Whom I myself shall see and my eyes shall behold, and no other. My core is consumed within me.

²⁸ “But if there is a deep matter in me, you would say, ‘Why is he persecuted?’

²⁹ “Be afraid of the sword! For the sword will be avenged of wickedness, so that you may know that there is a judgment.”