Job 19

VIN^{(i) 1} To this Job replied, ² "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? ³ These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me. ⁴ If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. ⁵ If truly you magnify yourself against me, and plead my misery against me, ⁶ Know ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about me. ⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. ⁸ "God has blocked my path so that I cannot go on. He has made my path dark. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ "He beats me down on every side until I am gone. He uproots my hope like a tree. ¹¹ His anger burns against me; he regards me as his adversary. ¹² His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. ¹³ "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ As for my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them. ¹⁶ I called my servant, but he does not answer; I must beg him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family. ¹⁸ Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock at me. ¹⁹ All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. ²⁰ I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." ²¹ "Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down. ²² "Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh? ²³ "Oh that my words were now written. Oh that they were inscribed in a scroll. ²⁴ That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! ²⁵ But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. ²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ "I will see him with my own eyes, not with someone else's. My heart fails inside me! ²⁸ "If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me, ²⁹ be afraid for yourselves because of the sword, for wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment."