Job 19 — WBMS
19Verse 1Forsooth Job answered, and said,Verse 2How long torment ye my soul, and all-break me with words?Verse 3Lo! ten times ye have shamed me, and ye be not ashamed, oppressing me.Verse 4Forsooth and if I know not [or if I am uncunning], mine unknowing shall be with me.Verse 5And ye be raised against me, and reprove me with my shames.Verse 6Namely now understand ye, that God hath tormented me not by even doom, and hath encompassed me with his beatings.Verse 7Lo! I suffering violence shall cry, and no man shall hear me; I shall cry loud, and there is none that deemeth me worthy to be heard.Verse 8The Lord hath beset about my path, and I may not go; and he hath set darknesses in my way.Verse 9He hath spoiled me of my glory, and hath taken away the crown from mine head.Verse 10He hath destroyed me on each side, and I perished; and he hath taken away mine hope, as from a tree pulled up by the root.Verse 11His strong vengeance was wroth against me; and he had me so as his enemy.Verse 12His thieves came together, and made to them a way by me; and besieged my tabernacle in compass.Verse 13He made [a] far my brethren from me; and my known as aliens went away from me.Verse 14My neighbours have forsaken me; and they that knew me have forgotten me.Verse 15The tenants of mine house, and mine handmaids, had me as a stranger; and I was as a pilgrim before their eyes.Verse 16I called my servant, and he answered not to me; with mine own mouth I prayed him.Verse 17My wife loathed my breath; and I prayed the sons of my womb.Verse 18Also fools despised me; and when I was gone away from them, they backbited me.Verse 19They, that were my counsellors sometime, had abomination of me; and he, whom I loved most, was adversary to me.Verse 20When my fleshes were wasted, my bones cleaved to my skin; and only [the] lips be left about my teeth.Verse 21Have ye mercy on me, have ye mercy on me, namely, ye my friends; for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.Verse 22Why pursue ye me, as God pursueth; and ye be fulfilled with my fleshes?Verse 23Who giveth, or granteth, to me, that my words be written? Who giveth to me, that those [or they] be written in a book,Verse 24with an iron pointel, either with a piece of lead; either with a chisel those [or they] be engraved in a flint?Verse 25For I know, that mine again-buyer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise from the earth;Verse 26and again I shall be encompassed with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see God, my saviour.Verse 27Whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another man. This mine hope is kept in my bosom, that is, in mine heart.Verse 28Why therefore say ye now, Pursue we him, and find we the root of a word against him?Verse 29Therefore flee ye from the face of the sword; for the sword is the avenger of wickednesses, and know ye, that doom shall be.