Capítulo 19

1 - Then Job answered and said,

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

3 - These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

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

5 - If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

6 - Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.

7 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

8 - He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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

10 - He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

11 - He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.

12 - His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

13 - He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

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

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

16 - I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth.

17 - My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

18 - Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

19 - All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

20 - My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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

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

23 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

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

25 - But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

26 - And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

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.

28 - If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

29 - Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.