Job 19 — TOJB

19Verse 1Then Iyov answered and said,^{Verse 2}How long will ye torment my nefesh,
and crush me with words?
^{Verse 3}These ten times have ye reproached me;
ye have no bushah that ye cause me astonishment.
^{Verse 4}And be it indeed that I have erred,
mine meshugah (error) remaineth with myself.
^{Verse 5}If indeed ye will magnify yourselves above me,
and use against me my cherpah (reproach, humiliation),
^{Verse 6}Have da'as now that Eloah hath put me in the wrong,
and hath encompassed me with his matzud (net).
^{Verse 7}Behold, when I cry chamas, I am not heard;
I cry for help, but there is no mishpat.
^{Verse 8}He hath fenced around my way that I cannot pass,
and set choshech in my paths.
^{Verse 9}He hath stripped me of my kavod,
and taken the ateret from my rosh.
^{Verse 10}He breaks me down on every side till I am gone,
and mine tikveh hath He uprooted like an etz.
^{Verse 11}He hath also kindled His wrath against me,
and He counteth me unto Him as His tzar (enemy).
^{Verse 12}His forces come together,
and raise up their siege ramp against me,
and encamp around my ohel.
^{Verse 13}He hath put achai (my brethren) far from me,
and mine acquaintances are verily estranged from me.
^{Verse 14}My kerov (near and dear) have failed,
and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
^{Verse 15}They that dwell in mine bais, and my maidservants, count me for a zar;
I am a nokhri in their sight.
^{Verse 16}I summoned avdi, and he gave me no answer;
I entreated him with my mouth.
^{Verse 17}My ruach is repulsive to my isha,
loathsome to bnei beten of mine.
^{Verse 18}Even avilim (little children) treat me with contempt;
I appear, and they ridicule me.
^{Verse 19}All my metei sod (confidants) detest me,
and they whom I loved are turned against me.
^{Verse 20}My etzem cleaveth to my ohr (skin)
and to my basar,
and I am escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
^{Verse 21}Channuni, channuni,
O ye my friends;
for the yad Eloah hath touched me.
^{Verse 22}Why do ye persecute me like El,
not satisfied with my basar?
^{Verse 23}Oh that my words were but written!
O that they were recorded in a sefer!
^{Verse 24}That they were engraved with a pen of barzel
and with oferet (lead) in the tzur forever!
^{Verse 25}For Ani yadati Goeli chai (I know that my Redeemer liveth),
and that he shall stand up at Acharon (at the Last) upon aphar (dust, the earth);
^{Verse 26}And though after my ohr (skin) has been thus destroyed,
yet from my basar I shall see Eloah;
^{Verse 27}Whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold and no other;
my heart faints within me.
^{Verse 28}But ye think, How we will persecute him,
seeing the shoresh (root) of the matter is found in me?
^{Verse 29}Be ye afraid of the cherev;
for wrath bringeth the avonot (punishments) of the cherev,
that ye may know there is a judgment.