Job 19
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Berean Standard Bible
1Then Job answered and said:
1Then Job answered:
2How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
3These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed that ye deal harshly with me.
3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
6Know now that God hath subverted my cause, and hath compassed me with His net.
6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7Behold, I cry out: 'Violence!' but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and hath set darkness in my paths.
8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath He plucked up like a tree.
10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
11He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of His adversaries.
11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
12His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am become an alien in their sight.
15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, though I entreat him with my mouth.
16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
17My breath is abhorred of my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my tribe.
17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18Even urchins despised me; if I arise, they speak against me.
18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19All my intimate friends abhor me; and they whom I loved are turned against me.
19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
24That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He will witness at the last upon the dust;
25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
26And when after my skin this is destroyed, then without my flesh shall I see God;
26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27Whom I, even I, shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another's. My reins are consumed within me.
27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
28If ye say: 'How we will persecute him!' seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;
28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29Be ye afraid of the sword; for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a 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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