Job 19:1 (ASV)
Then Job answered and said,

Job 19:2 (ASV)
How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

Job 19:3 (ASV)
These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

Job 19:4 (ASV)
And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

Job 19:5 (ASV)
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

Job 19:6 (ASV)
Know now that God hath subverted me `in my cause', And hath compassed me with his net.

Job 19:7 (ASV)
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8 (ASV)
He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 19:9 (ASV)
He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

Job 19:10 (ASV)
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

Job 19:11 (ASV)
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as `one of' his adversaries.

Job 19:12 (ASV)
His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

Job 19:13 (ASV)
He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

Job 19:14 (ASV)
My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15 (ASV)
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

Job 19:16 (ASV)
I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, `Though' I entreat him with my mouth.

Job 19:17 (ASV)
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

Job 19:18 (ASV)
Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

Job 19:19 (ASV)
All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

Job 19:20 (ASV)
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21 (ASV)
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

Job 19:22 (ASV)
Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:23 (ASV)
Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Job 19:24 (ASV)
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

Job 19:25 (ASV)
But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

Job 19:26 (ASV)
And after my skin, `even' this `body', is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

Job 19:27 (ASV)
Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

Job 19:28 (ASV)
If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

Job 19:29 (ASV)
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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