Job 19:1-29 MEV

[1] Then Job answered: [2] "How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? [3] These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. [4] And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me. [5] If indeed you exalt yourselves against me and plead against me with my disgrace, [6] know now that God has bent me and has surrounded me with His net. [7] "Look, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice. [8] He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths. [9] He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. [10] He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; my hope He has uprooted like a tree. [11] He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies. [12] His troops come together and build up their road against me; they set up camp all around my tent. [13] "He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. [14] My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. [15] Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me for a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. [16] I called my servant, but he gave me no answer; I begged him with my mouth. [17] My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to the children of my own body. [18] Yes, young children despise me; I arose, and they spoke against me. [19] All my close friends abhorred me, and they whom I love are turned against me. [20] My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. [21] "Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me! [22] Why do you persecute me as God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh? [23] "Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! [24] That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! [25] For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He will stand at last on the earth; [26] and after my skin is destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, [27] whom I will see for myself, and my eyes will behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me. [28] "If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?' since the root of the matter is found in me, [29] be afraid of the sword for yourselves; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."