Job 19

1Then Job answered, 2and crush me with words? “How long will you torment me, 3You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. You have reproached me ten times. 4my error remains with myself. If it is true that I have erred, 5and plead against me my reproach; If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, 6and has surrounded me with his net. know now that God has subverted me, 7I cry for help, but there is no justice. “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. 8and has set darkness in my paths. He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, 9and taken the crown from my head. He has stripped me of my glory, 10My hope he has plucked up like a tree. He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. 11He counts me among his adversaries. He has also kindled his wrath against me. 12build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. His troops come on together, 13My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. “He has put my brothers far from me. 14My familiar friends have forgotten me. My relatives have gone away. 15I am an alien in their sight. Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. 16I beg him with my mouth. I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. 17I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. My breath is offensive to my wife. 18If I arise, they speak against me. Even young children despise me. 19They whom I loved have turned against me. All my familiar friends abhor me. 20I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. 21for the hand of God has touched me. “Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; 22and are not satisfied with my flesh? Why do you persecute me as God, 23Oh that they were inscribed in a book! “Oh that my words were now written! 24they were engraved in the rock forever! That with an iron pen and lead 25In the end, he will stand upon the earth. But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. 26then in my flesh shall I see God, After my skin is destroyed, 27My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. “My heart is consumed within me. 28because the root of the matter is found in me, If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ 29for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” be afraid of the sword,