The Book of Job 19

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1 Then Job answered and said ⚑

2 How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words ⚑

3 These ten times have ye reproached me ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me ⚑

4 And be it indeed that I have erred mine error remaineth with myself ⚑

5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach ⚑

6 Know now that God hath overthrown me and hath compassed me with his net ⚑

7 Behold I cry out of wrong but I am not heard I cry aloud but there is no judgment ⚑

8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass and he hath set darkness in my paths ⚑

9 He hath stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head ⚑

10 He hath destroyed me on every side and I am gone and mine hope hath he removed like a tree ⚑

11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies ⚑

12 His troops come together and raise up their way against me and encamp round about my tabernacle ⚑

13 He hath put my brethren far from me and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me ⚑

14 My kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me ⚑

15 They that dwell in mine house and my maids count me for a stranger I am an alien in their sight ⚑

16 I called my servant and he gave me no answer I intreated him with my mouth ⚑

17 My breath is strange to my wife though I intreated for the c ldren’s sake of mine own body ⚑

18 Yea young children despised me I arose and they spake against me ⚑

19 All my inward friends abhorred me and they whom I loved are turned against me ⚑

20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth ⚑

21 Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me ⚑

22 Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh ⚑

23 Oh that my words were now written oh that they were printed in a book ⚑

24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ⚑

25 For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth ⚑

26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God ⚑

27 Whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me ⚑

28 But ye should say Why persecute we him seeing the root of the matter is found in me ⚑

29 Be ye afraid of the sword for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword that ye may know there is a judgment ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain