18:019:001 Then Job answered and said,
18:019:002 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with
words?
18:019:003 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that
ye make yourselves strange to me.
18:019:004 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with
myself.
18:019:005 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
against me my reproach:
18:019:006 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me
with his net.
18:019:007 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud,
but there is no judgment.
18:019:008 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set
darkness in my paths.
18:019:009 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my
head.
18:019:010 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine
hope hath he removed like a tree.
18:019:011 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me
unto him as one of his enemies.
18:019:012 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me,
and encamp round about my tabernacle.
18:019:013 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are
verily estranged from me.
18:019:014 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have
forgotten me.
18:019:015 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a
stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
18:019:016 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him
with my mouth.
18:019:017 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the
children's sake of mine own body.
18:019:018 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake
against me.
18:019:019 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are
turned against me.
18:019:020 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped
with the skin of my teeth.
18:019:021 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the
hand of God hath touched me.
18:019:022 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my
flesh?
18:019:023 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed
in a book!
18:019:024 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock
for ever!
18:019:025 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth:
18:019:026 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
flesh shall I see God:
18:019:027 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and
not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
18:019:028 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of
the matter is found in me?
18:019:029 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments
of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.