Job 19

CLV(i) 1 So Job answered and said: 2 How long shall you afflict my soul And crush me with declarations? 3 These ten times have you criticized me; You are not ashamed that you ill-treat me. 4 Yet indeed, even if I truly have erred, My error would lodge in me. 5 If truly you would magnify yourselves over me And plead against me my reproach, 6 Know indeed that Eloah Himself has overturned me, And He has entrapped me with His weir. 7 Behold, I am crying of wrong, And I am still not being answered; I am imploring, Yet there is no judgment. 8 He has diked up my path, and I cannot pass; He settles darkness over my tracks. 9 My glory He has stripped from me, And He takes away the crown from my head. 10 He breaks me down round about, so that I go away, And He uproots my expectation like a tree. 11 He heats up His anger against me, And to Himself He reckons me as one of His foes. 12 His regiments come together And heap up their road against me, And they encamp round about my tent. 13 He has put my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances have surely estranged themselves from me. 14 My near kinsmen have shunned me, And my acquaintances have forgotten me. 15 The sojourners in my house and my maidservants reckon me as an alien; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I call to my servant, yet he does not answer; With my mouth I supplicate to him. 17 My scent has become alien to my wife, And my supplicating foreign to the sons of my belly. 18 Even youngsters have rejected me; I rise up, and they speak against me. 19 All men of my council abhor me, And those I have liked are turned against me. 20 My bones cling to my skin and my flesh, And I escape only with the skin of my teeth. 21 Be gracious to me! be gracious to me, you, my associates! For the hand of Eloah has touched me. 22 Why are you pursuing me like El And are not satisfied with my flesh? 23 O that indeed my declarations were written down! O that they were delineated in a scroll, 24 With iron pen and lead, That they should be hewn in rock for the future!" 25 Yet as for me, I know my Redeemer is living, And after this He shall arise on the soil;" 26 And behind my skin I will stand erect, And from my flesh I shall perceive Eloah, 27 Whom I shall perceive for myself, And my own eyes will see, Him and not an alien. My innermost being is exhausted in my bosom, 28 If you are saying, How may we pursue him? And:The root of the matter is found in him, 29 Shrink for yourselves from the presence of the sword (For your fury is like depravities of the sword) That you may know what adjudication is.