Job 19:1-29 NET

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