Job 19 (KJV)

¹Then Job answered and said,

²How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

³These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. ^{make: or, harden yourselves against me}

⁴And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

⁵If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

⁶Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

⁷Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. ^{wrong: or, violence}

⁸He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

⁹He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

¹¹He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

¹²His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

¹⁴My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

¹⁷My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. ^{mine: Heb. my belly}

¹⁸Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. ^{young: or, the wicked}

¹⁹All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. ^{my: Heb. the men of my secret}

²⁰My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. ^{and to: or, as to}

²¹Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

²²Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! ^{Oh: Heb. Who will give, etc}

²⁴That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

²⁵For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

²⁶And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: ^{And: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}

²⁷Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. ^{another: Heb. a stranger} ^{though: or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire (for that day)} ^{within: Heb. in my bosom}

²⁸But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? ^{seeing: or, and what root of matter is found in me?}

²⁹Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment .