Job 19:2"How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words?
Job 19:3"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].
Job 19:4"And if it were true that I have erred, My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].
Job 19:5"If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,
Job 19:6Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me And has closed His net around me.
Job 19:7¶ "Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not heard; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:8"He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has set darkness upon my paths.
Job 19:9"He has stripped me of my honor And removed the crown from my head.
Job 19:10"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
Job 19:11"He has also kindled His wrath [like a fire] against me And He considers and counts me as one of His adversaries.
Job 19:12"His troops come together And build up their way and siege works against me And camp around my tent.
Job 19:13¶ "He has put my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
Job 19:14"My relatives have failed [me], And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15"Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
Job 19:16"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with words.
Job 19:17"My breath is repulsive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
Job 19:18"Even young children despise me; When I get up, they speak against me.
Job 19:19"All the men of my council hate me; Those I love have turned against me.
Job 19:20"My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21"Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has touched me.
Job 19:22"Why do you persecute me as God does? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?
Job 19:23¶ "Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!
Job 19:24"That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
Job 19:25"For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth. [Is 44:6; 48:12]
Job 19:26"Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death], Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,
Job 19:27Whom I, even I, will see for myself, And my eyes will see Him and not another! My heart faints within me.
Job 19:28"If you say, 'How shall we [continue to] persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?'
Job 19:29"Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance] for yourselves, For wrathful are the punishments of that sword, So that you may know there is judgment."