Job 19:1-29 AMP

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