Job 19:1-29 LSV

[1] And Job answers and says: [2] “Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words? [3] These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me— [4] And also—truly, I have erred, || My error remains with me. [5] If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, || And decide my reproach against me; [6] Know now, that God turned me upside down, || And has set around His net against me, [7] Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment. [8] He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths. [9] He has stripped my honor from off me, || And He turns the crown from my head. [10] He breaks me down all around, and I go, || And removes my hope like a tree. [11] And He kindles His anger against me, || And reckons me to Him as His adversaries. [12] His troops come in together, || And they raise up their way against me, || And encamp around my tent. [13] He has put my brothers far off from me, || And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me. [14] My neighbors have ceased || And my familiar friends have forgotten me, [15] Sojourners of my house and my maids, || Reckon me for a stranger; I have been an alien in their eyes. [16] I have called to my servant, || And he does not answer, || With my mouth I make supplication to him. [17] My spirit is strange to my wife, || And my favors to the sons of my [mother’s] womb. [18] Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me. [19] All the men of my counsel detest me, || And those I have loved, || Have been turned against me. [20] To my skin and to my flesh || My bone has cleaved, || And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth. [21] Pity me, pity me, you my friends, || For the hand of God has struck against me. [22] Why do you pursue me as God? And are not satisfied with my flesh? [23] Who grants now, that my words may be written? Who grants that they may be inscribed in a scroll? [24] With a pen of iron and lead—They may be hewn in a rock forever. [25] That—I have known my Redeemer, || The Living and the Last, || For He raises the dust. [26] And after my skin has surrounded this [body], || Then from my flesh I see God— [27] Whom I see on my side, || And my eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, || My reins have been consumed in my bosom. [28] But you say, Why do we pursue after him? And the root of the matter has been found in me. [29] Be afraid because of the sword, || For the punishments of the sword [are] furious, || That you may know that [there is] a judgment.”