Chapter:

The Book of Job

Chapter 19

American Standard Version

Jb 19:1	Then Job answered and said,
Jb 19:2	How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
Jb 19:3	These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
Jb 19:4	And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
Jb 19:5	If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
Jb 19:6	Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.
Jb 19:7	Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Jb 19:8	He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Jb 19:9	He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
Jb 19:10	He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
Jb 19:11	He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.
Jb 19:12	His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
Jb 19:13	He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Jb 19:14	My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Jb 19:15	They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Jb 19:16	I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth.
Jb 19:17	My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
Jb 19:18	Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
Jb 19:19	All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Jb 19:20	My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Jb 19:21	Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Jb 19:22	Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Jb 19:23	Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Jb 19:24	That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
Jb 19:25	But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
Jb 19:26	And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
Jb 19:27	Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
Jb 19:28	If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
Jb 19:29	Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.