Job 19
|
Job 19
|
| Then Job answered and said, | And Job made answer and said, |
| How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? | How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? |
| These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. | Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong. |
| And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. | And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself. |
| If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; | If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me, |
| Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net. | Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. |
| Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. | Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. |
| He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths. | My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. |
| He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. | He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. |
| He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree. | I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. |
| He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries. | His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters. |
| His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent. | His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine. |
| He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. | He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. |
| My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. | My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. |
| They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. | I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. |
| I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth. | At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. |
| My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother. | My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. |
| Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me. | Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. |
| All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me. | All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me. |
| My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. | My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth. |
| Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me. | Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me. |
| Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh? | Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me? |
| Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! | If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! |
| That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever! | And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! |
| But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: | But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust; |
| And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; | And ... without my flesh I will see God; |
| 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. | Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire. |
| If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me; | If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him: |
| Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment. | Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge. |
