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Job 19 (AMP)

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¹ THEN JOB answered: ² How long will you vex and torment me and break me in pieces with words? ³ These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange . ⁴ And if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me . ⁵ If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach and humiliation, ⁶ Know that God has overthrown and put me in the wrong and has closed His net about me. ⁷ Behold, I cry out, Violence! but I am not heard; I cry aloud for help, but there is no justice. ⁸ He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has He pulled up like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His adversaries. ¹² His troops come together and cast up their way and siege works against me and encamp round about my tent. ¹³ He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those who live temporarily in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer, though I beseech him with words. ¹⁷ I am repulsive to my wife and loathsome to the children of my own mother. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me; when I get up, they speak against me. ¹⁹ All the men of my council and my familiar friends abhor me; those whom I loved are turned against me. ²⁰ My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin or gums of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! ²² Why do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? why are you not satisfied with my flesh? ²³ Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book ! ²⁴ That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock forever! ²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He will stand upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh or without it I shall see God, ²⁷ Whom I, even I, shall see for myself and on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away and is consumed within me. ²⁸ If you say, How we will pursue him! that the root of all these is found in me, ²⁹ Then beware and be afraid of the sword , for wrathful are the punishments of that sword, that you may know there is a judgment.