Job 19 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job Feels Insulted

Job 19:1

Job 19:1And Job answereth and saith: --

Job 19:2

Job 19:2Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

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Job 19:3These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --

Job 19:4

Job 19:4And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

Job 19:5

Job 19:5If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

Job 19:6

Job 19:6Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Everything Is against Him

Job 19:7

Job 19:7Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

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Job 19:8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

Job 19:9

Job 19:9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

Job 19:10He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

Job 19:11

Job 19:11And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

Job 19:12

Job 19:12Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

Job 19:13

Job 19:13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

Job 19:14

Job 19:14Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,

Job 19:15

Job 19:15Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.

Job 19:16

Job 19:16To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.

Job 19:17

Job 19:17My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.

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Job 19:18Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

Job 19:19

Job 19:19Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

Job 19:20

Job 19:20To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

Job 19:21Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

Job 19:22

Job 19:22Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

Job 19:23

Job 19:23Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

Job 19:24

Job 19:24With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

Job 19:25

Job 19:25That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

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Job 19:26And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:

Job 19:27

Job 19:27Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

Job 19:28

Job 19:28But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

Job 19:29

Job 19:29Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious are the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that there is a judgment.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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