Jó 19

¹ Then Job answered and said,

² How long will you{+} vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

³ These ten times you{+} have reproached me: You{+} are not ashamed that you{+} deal harshly with me.

⁴ And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with myself.

⁵ If indeed you{+} will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

⁶ Know now that God has subverted me [in my cause], And has surrounded me with his net.

⁷ Look, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

⁸ He has walled up my way that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope he has plucked up like a tree.

¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me, And he counts me to him as [one of] his adversaries.

¹² His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house, and my female slaves, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶ I call to my slave, and he gives me no answer, [Though] I plead to him with my mouth.

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the sons of my own mother.

¹⁸ Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

¹⁹ All my familiar friends are disgusted by me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

²⁰ My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you{+} my companions; For the hand of God has touched me.

²² Why do you{+} persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

²⁴ That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, And at last he will stand up on the earth:

²⁶ And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh will I see God;

²⁷ Whom I, even I, will see, on my side, And my eyes will behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed inside me.

²⁸ If you{+} say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

²⁹ Be{+} afraid of the sword: For wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, That you{+} may know there is a judgment.