^19:1 Then Job answered and said, ^19:2 How long will you^* distress my soul and break me in pieces with words? ^19:3 These ten times you^* have reproached me. You^* are not ashamed that you^* deal hardly with me.

    ^19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

    ^19:5 If indeed you^* will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach, ^19:6know now that God has subverted me and has encompassed me with his net.

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

    ^19:8 He has walled up my way that I cannot pass and has set darkness in my paths. ^19:9 He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.^19:10 He has broken me down on every side and I have gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree. ^19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries. ^19:12 His troops come on together and cast up their way against me and encamp all around my tent.

    ^19:13 He has put my brothers far from me and my acquaintances are entirely estranged from me. ^19:14 My kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ^19:15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. ^19:16 I call to my servant and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth.^19:17 My breath is strange to my wife and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.

    ^19:18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. ^19:19 All my familiar friends abhor me and those whom I loved are turned against me. ^19:20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

    ^19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you^* my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. ^19:22 Why do you^* persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?

    ^19:23 O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book, ^19:24 that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!

    ^19:25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ^19:26And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I will see God, ^19:27 whom I, even I, will see on my side and my eyes will behold and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

    ^19:28 If you^* say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me, ^19:29 be you^* afraid of the sword. For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you^* may know there is a judgment.