Job 19
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Then Job answered, and said:
1Then Job answered:
2How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
11His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.
15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
17My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.
19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
28Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.
29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
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