Job 19 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ Then Job answered and said,

² How long will ye vex my soul,\par\tab And break me in pieces with words?

³ These ten times have ye reproached me:\par\tab Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred,\par\tab Mine error remaineth with myself.

⁵ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,\par\tab And plead against me my reproach;

⁶ Know now that God hath subverted me {\i in my cause},\par\tab And hath compassed me with his net.\par

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:\par\tab I cry for help, but there is no justice.

⁸ He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,\par\tab And hath set darkness in my paths.

⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory,\par\tab And taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;\par\tab And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

¹¹ He hath also kindled his wrath against me,\par\tab And he counteth me unto him as {\i one of} his adversaries.

¹² His troops come on together,\par\tab And cast up their way against me,\par\tab And encamp round about my tent.\par

¹³ He hath put my brethren far from me,\par\tab And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed,\par\tab And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger;\par\tab I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶ I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,\par\tab {\i Though} I entreat him with my mouth.

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife,\par\tab And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

¹⁸ Even young children despise me;\par\tab If I arise, they speak against me.

¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me,\par\tab And they whom I loved are turned against me.

²⁰ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,\par\tab And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;\par\tab For the hand of God hath touched me.

²² Why do ye persecute me as God,\par\tab And are not satisfied with my flesh?\par

²³ Oh that my words were now written!\par\tab Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

²⁴ That with an iron pen and lead\par\tab They were graven in the rock for ever!

²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth,\par\tab And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

²⁶ And after my skin, {\i even} this {\i body}, is destroyed,\par\tab Then without my flesh shall I see God;

²⁷ Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side,\par\tab And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.\par\tab My heart is consumed within me.

²⁸ If ye say, How we will persecute him!\par\tab And that the root of the matter is found in me;

²⁹ Be ye afraid of the sword:\par\tab For wrath {\i bringeth} the punishments of the sword,\par\tab That ye may know there is a judgment.\par