Job Chapter 19 (KJV)

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undefined Then Job answered and said,

undefined How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

undefined These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

undefined And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

undefined If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

undefined Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

undefined Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

undefined He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

undefined He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

undefined He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

undefined He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

undefined His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

undefined He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

undefined My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

undefined They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

undefined I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

undefined My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

undefined Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

undefined All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

undefined My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

undefined Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

undefined Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

undefined Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

undefined That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

undefined For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

undefined And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

undefined Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

undefined But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

undefined Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

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