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Job 18

The Book of Job

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Chapter 19

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  Then Job answered and said,  

 

 

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  How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?  

 

 

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  These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.  

 

 

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  And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.  

 

 

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  If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;  

 

 

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  Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.  

 

 

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

 

 

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  He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.  

 

 

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  He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.  

 

 

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  He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.  

 

 

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  He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.  

 

 

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  His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.  

 

 

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  He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.  

 

 

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  My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.  

 

 

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  They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.  

 

 

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  I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth.  

 

 

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  My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.  

 

 

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  Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.  

 

 

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  All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.  

 

 

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  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.  

 

 

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  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.  

 

 

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  Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?  

 

 

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  Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!  

 

 

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  That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!  

 

 

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  But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:  

 

 

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  And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;  

 

 

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  Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.  

 

 

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  If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;  

 

 

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  Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.  

 

 

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Job 20

 

 

 

 

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