Book of Job, Chapter 19
Job 19 ASV - American Standard VersionChapter 19 of Job—American Standard Version (ASV)
- ¶ Then Job answered and said,
- ¶ How long will ye vex my soul,
¶ And break me in pieces with words? - ¶ These ten times have ye reproached me:
¶ Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. - ¶ And be it indeed that I have erred,
¶ Mine error remaineth with myself. - ¶ [a]If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,
¶ And plead against me my reproach; - ¶ Know now that God hath [b]subverted me in my cause,
¶ And hath compassed me with his net. - ¶ Behold, I [c]cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:
¶ I cry for help, but there is no justice. - ¶ He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,
¶ And hath set darkness in my paths. - ¶ He hath stripped me of my glory,
¶ 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. - ¶ He hath also kindled his wrath against me,
¶ And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries. - ¶ His troops come on together,
¶ And cast up their way against me,
¶ And encamp round about my tent. - ¶ He hath put my brethren far from me,
¶ And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. - ¶ My kinsfolk have failed,
¶ And my familiar friends have forgotten me. - ¶ They that [d]dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:
¶ I am an alien in their sight. - ¶ I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,
¶ Though I entreat him with my mouth. - ¶ My breath is strange to my wife,
¶ And [e]my supplication to the children [f]of mine own mother. - ¶ Even young children despise me;
¶ If I arise, they speak against me. - ¶ All [g]my familiar friends abhor me,
¶ And they whom I loved are turned against me. - ¶ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,
¶ And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. - ¶ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
¶ For the hand of God hath touched me. - ¶ Why do ye persecute me as God,
¶ And are not satisfied with my flesh? - ¶ Oh that my words were now written!
¶ Oh that they were inscribed in a book! - ¶ That with an iron pen and lead
¶ They were graven in the rock for ever! - ¶ [h]But as for me I know that my [i]Redeemer liveth,
¶ And at last he will stand up upon the [j]earth: - ¶ [k]And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed,
¶ Then without my flesh shall I see God; - ¶ Whom I, even I, shall see, [l]on my side,
¶ And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.
¶ My [m]heart is consumed within me. - ¶ If ye say, How we will persecute him!
¶ And that the root of the matter is found in me; - ¶ Be ye afraid of the sword:
¶ For [n]wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,
¶ That ye may know there is a judgment.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, Will ye indeed . . . reproach?
- ^ Or, overthrown me
- ^ Or, cry out, Violence!
- ^ Or, sojourn
- ^ Or, I make supplication. Or, I am loathsome
- ^ Or, of my body
- ^ Hebrew the men of my council.
- ^ Or, For
- ^ Or, vindicator. Hebrew goel.
- ^ Hebrew dust.
- ^ Or, And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, Yet from my flesh shall I see God
- ^ Or, for myself
- ^ Hebrew reins.
- ^ Or, wrathful are
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