19:1 Then Job answered:
19:2 “How long will you torment me 2
and crush 3 me with your words? 4
19:3 These ten times 5 you have been reproaching me; 6
you are not ashamed to attack me! 7
19:4 But even if it were 8 true that I have erred, 9
my error 10 remains solely my concern!
19:5 If indeed 11 you would exalt yourselves 12 above me
and plead my disgrace against me, 13
19:6 know 14 then that God has wronged me 15
and encircled 16 me with his net. 17
19:7 “If 18 I cry out, 19 ‘Violence!’ 20
I receive no answer; 21
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.
19:8 He has blocked 22 my way so I cannot pass,
and has set darkness 23 over my paths.
19:9 He has stripped me of my honor
and has taken the crown off my head. 24
19:10 He tears me down 25 on every side until I perish; 26
he uproots 27 my hope 28 like one uproots 29 a tree.
19:11 Thus 30 his anger burns against me,
and he considers me among his enemies. 31
19:12 His troops 32 advance together;
they throw up 33 a siege ramp against me,
and they camp around my tent.
19:13 “He has put my relatives 34 far from me;
my acquaintances only 35 turn away from me.
19:14 My kinsmen have failed me;
my friends 36 have forgotten me. 37
19:15 My guests 38 and my servant girls
consider 39 me a stranger;
I am a foreigner 40 in their eyes.
19:16 I summon 41 my servant, but he does not respond,
even though I implore 42 him with my own mouth.
19:17 My breath is repulsive 43 to my wife;
I am loathsome 44 to my brothers. 45
19:18 Even youngsters have scorned me;
when I get up, 46 they scoff at me. 47
19:19 All my closest friends 48 detest me;
and those whom 49 I love have turned against me. 50
19:20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; 51
I have escaped 52 alive 53 with only the skin of my teeth.
19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,
for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22 Why do you pursue me like God does? 54
Will you never be satiated with my flesh? 55
19:23 “O that 56 my words were written down,
O that they were written on a scroll, 57
19:24 that with an iron chisel and with lead 58
they were engraved in a rock forever!
19:25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer 59 lives,
and that as the last 60
he will stand upon the earth. 61
19:26 And after my skin has been destroyed, 62
yet in my flesh 63 I will see God, 64
19:27 whom I will see for myself, 65
and whom my own eyes will behold,
and not another. 66
My heart 67 grows faint within me. 68
19:28 If you say, ‘How we will pursue him,
since the root of the trouble is found in him!’ 69
19:29 Fear the sword yourselves,
for wrath 70 brings the punishment 71 by the sword,
so that you may know
that there is judgment.” 72