19:1 Then Job replied:
19:2 How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
19:3 Ten times now you have reproached me shamelessly you attack me.
19:4 If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
19:6 then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
19:7 Though I cry, `I’ve been wronged!’ I get no response though I call for help, there is no justice.
19:8 He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
19:9 He has stripped me of my honour and removed the crown from my head.
19:10 He tears me down on every side till I am gone he uproots my hope like a tree.
19:11 His anger burns against me he counts me among his enemies.
19:12 His troops advance in force they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
19:13 He has alienated my brothers from me my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
19:14 My kinsmen have gone away my friends have forgotten me.
19:15 My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger they look upon me as an alien.
19:16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
19:17 My breath is offensive to my wife I am loathsome to my own brothers.
19:18 Even the little boys scorn me when I appear, they ridicule me.
19:19 All my intimate friends detest me those I love have turned against me.
19:20 I am nothing but skin and bones I have escaped by only the skin of my teeth. [Or only my gums]
19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22 Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
19:23 Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
19:24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool on [Or and] lead, or engraved in rock for ever!
19:25 I know that my Redeemer [Or defender] lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. [Or upon my grave]
19:26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet [Or And after I awake, though this body has been destroyed, then] in [Or apart from] my flesh I will see God
19:27 I myself will see him with my own eyes I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
19:28 If you say, `How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,’ [Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate most Hebrew manuscripts me]
19:29 you should fear the sword yourselves for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. [Or that you may come to know the Almighty]