Job 19

^{Job 19:1} Then Job answered:

^{Job 19:2} “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

^{Job 19:3} Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

^{Job 19:4} Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

^{Job 19:5} If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

^{Job 19:6} then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

^{Job 19:7} Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

^{Job 19:8} He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

^{Job 19:9} He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

^{Job 19:10} He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

^{Job 19:11} His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

^{Job 19:12} His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

^{Job 19:13} He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

^{Job 19:14} My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

^{Job 19:15} My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

^{Job 19:16} I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

^{Job 19:17} My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

^{Job 19:18} Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

^{Job 19:19} All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

^{Job 19:20} My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

^{Job 19:21} Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

^{Job 19:22} Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

^{Job 19:23} I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

^{Job 19:24} by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

^{Job 19:25} But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

^{Job 19:26} Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

^{Job 19:27} I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

^{Job 19:28} If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him, ’

^{Job 19:29} then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”