Job 19 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Job Feels Insulted

Job 19:1

Job 19:1Then Job answered and said,

Job 19:2

How long will ye vex my soul,

And break me in pieces with words?

Job 19:3

These ten times have ye reproached me:

Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

Job 19:4

And be it indeed that I have erred,

Mine error remaineth with myself.

Job 19:5

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,

And plead against me my reproach;

Job 19:6

Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause,

And hath compassed me with his net.

Everything Is against Him

Job 19:7

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:

I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:8

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.

Job 19:10

He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;

And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

Job 19:11

He hath also kindled his wrath against me,

And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

Job 19:12

His troops come on together,

And cast up their way against me,

And encamp round about my tent.

Job 19:13

He hath put my brethren far from me,

And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

Job 19:14

My kinsfolk have failed,

And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:

I am an alien in their sight.

Job 19:16

I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,

Though I entreat him with my mouth.

Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife,

And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

Job 19:18

Even young children despise me;

If I arise, they speak against me.

Job 19:19

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.

Job 19:21

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;

For the hand of God hath touched me.

Job 19:22

Why do ye persecute me as God,

And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

Job 19:23

Oh that my words were now written!

Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

Job 19:24

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;

Job 19:27

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.

Job 19:28

If ye say, How we will persecute him!

And that the root of the matter is found in me;

Job 19:29

Be ye afraid of the sword:

For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,

That ye may know there is a judgment.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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