Job 19:1-29 ASV

[1] Then Job answered and said, [2] How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? [3] These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. [4] And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. [5] If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; [6] Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net. [7] Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. [8] He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths. [9] He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. [10] He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree. [11] He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto 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 hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. [14] My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. [15] They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. [16] I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth. [17] My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother. [18] Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me. [19] All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me. [20] My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. [21] Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me. [22] Why do ye 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 graven in the rock for ever! [25] But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: [26] And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; [27] Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me. [28] If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me; [29] Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.