Job Chapter 19 World English Bible

Job 19:1

Then Job answered,

Job 19:2

"How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?

Job 19:3

You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

Job 19:4

If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.

Job 19:5

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

Job 19:6

Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

Job 19:7

"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

Job 19:11

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

Job 19:12

His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.

Job 19:13

"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Job 19:14

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

Job 19:16

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.

Job 19:17

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

Job 19:18

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

Job 19:19

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

Job 19:20

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

Job 19:22

Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:23

"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Job 19:24

That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

Job 19:25

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Job 19:26

After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,

Job 19:27

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

Job 19:28

If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me,

Job 19:29

Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."