Job 19
Job's Faith That God
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Then Job answered and said,
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How long will ye vex my soul,
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and break me in pieces with
words? |
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These ten times have ye reproached
me:
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ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves
strange to
me. |
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And be it indeed that I have
erred,
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mine error remaineth with
myself. |
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,
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and plead against me my
reproach; |
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know now that God hath overthrown me,
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and hath compassed me with his
net. |
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not
heard:
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I cry aloud, but there is no
judgment. |
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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot
pass,
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and he hath set darkness in my
paths. |
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He hath stripped me of my glory,
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and taken the crown from my
head. |
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He hath destroyed me on every side, and I
am gone:
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and mine hope hath he removed like a
tree. |
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He hath also kindled his wrath against
me,
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and he counteth me unto him as one of his
enemies. |
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His troops come together, and raise up
their way against me,
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and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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He hath put my brethren far from me,
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and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from
me. |
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My kinsfolk have failed,
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and my familiar friends have forgotten
me. |
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They that dwell in mine house, and my
maids,
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count me for a stranger: |
I am an alien in their
sight. |
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I called my servant, and he gave me no answer;
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I entreated him with my
mouth. |
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My breath is strange to my wife,
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though I entreated for the children's sake of
mine own
body. |
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Yea, young children despised me;
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I arose, and they spake against
me. |
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All my inward friends abhorred me:
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and they whom I loved are turned against
me. |
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my
flesh,
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and I am escaped with the skin of my
teeth. |
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O
ye my friends;
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for the hand of God hath touched
me. |
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Why do ye persecute me as God,
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and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Oh that my words were now written!
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Oh that they were printed in a
book! |
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That they were graven with an iron pen
and lead
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For I know that my Redeemer
liveth,
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and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the
earth: |
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and though after my skin worms destroy this body,
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yet in my flesh shall I see
God: |
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whom I shall see for myself,
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and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; |
though my reins be consumed within
me. |
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But ye should say, Why persecute we
him,
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seeing the root of the matter is found in
me? |
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Be ye afraid of the sword:
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for wrath bringeth the punishments of the
sword, |
that ye may know there is a
judgment. |
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