Job 19:1-29 KJ21

[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 make yourselves strange to me. [4] And if it be 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 overthrown me, and hath compassed me with His net. [7] "Behold, I cry out because of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. [8] He hath fenced up my way, that I cannot pass, and He hath set darkness in my paths. [9] He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. [10] He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and mine hope hath He removed like a tree. [11] He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of His enemies. [12] His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. [13] "He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintances are verily estranged from me. [14] My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. [15] They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. [16] I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. [17] My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the sake of the children of my own body. [18] Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. [19] All my intimate friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. [20] My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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 printed in a book, [24] that they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever! [25] For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; [26] and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, [27] whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me. [28] "But should ye say, 'Why persecute we him?'-seeing 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."