19:1 Then Job responded,
19:2 “How long will you torment ①me
And crush me with words?
▷ ①Lit my soul
19:3 These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
19:4 Even if I have truly done wrong,
My error stays with me.
19:5 If indeed you exalt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
19:6 Know then that God has wronged me
And has surrounded me with His net.
19:7 “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
19:8 He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.
19:9 He has stripped my honor from me
And removed the crown from my head.
19:10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
19:11 He has also kindled His anger against me
And considered me as His enemy.
19:12 His troops come together
And build up their ①way against me
And camp around my tent.
▷ ①I.e., siege ramp
19:13 “He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances have completely turned away from me.
19:14 My relatives have failed,
And my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15 Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.
19:16 I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore his favor with my mouth.
19:17 My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
19:18 Even young children despise me;
I stand up and they speak against me.
19:19 All ①my associates loathe me,
And those I love have turned against me.
▷ ①Lit the men of my council
19:20 My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
19:21 Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine,
For the hand of God has struck me.
19:22 Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23 “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were recorded in a book!
19:24 That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
19:25 Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
And at the last, He will take His stand on the ①earth.
▷ ①Lit dust
19:26 Even after my skin ①is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I will see God,
▷ ①Lit which they have cut off
19:27 Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself,
And whom my eyes will see, and not another.
My ①heart faints ②within me!
▷ ①Lit kidneys ②Lit in my loins
19:28 If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘ ①What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
▷ ①Or the root of the matter is found in him
19:29 Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”