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Job 19
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19:1
Then Job answered and said, |
(19:1-29) "Then Job answered and said....."
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19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? |
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19:3
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make
yourselves strange to me. |
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19:4
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. |
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19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my
reproach: |
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19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. |
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19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is
no judgment. |
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19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in
my paths. |
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19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. |
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19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he
removed like a tree. |
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19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as
one of his enemies. |
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19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp
round about my tabernacle. |
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19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me. |
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19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
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19:15
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am
an alien in their sight. |
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19:16
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my
mouth. |
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19:17
My breath is strange
to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. |
(19:17) "My breath is strange to my wife."
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19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. |
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19:19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned
against me. |
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19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the
skin of my teeth. |
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19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God
hath touched me. |
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19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
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19:23
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! |
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19:24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! |
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19:25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth: |
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19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I
see God: |
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19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another;
though my reins be consumed within me. |
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19:28
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is
found in me? |
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19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the
sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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