Capítulo 19

1 - Then Job replied:

2 - "How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

3 - Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.

4 - If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

5 - If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

6 - then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

7 - "Though I cry, 'Violence!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

8 - He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

9 - He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

10 - He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

11 - His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.

12 - His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

13 - "He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

14 - My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

15 - My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

16 - I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.

17 - My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

18 - Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.

19 - All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.

20 - I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. Or [only by my gums]

21 - "Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

22 - Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

23 - "Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

24 - that they were inscribed with an iron tool on Or [and] lead, or engraved in rock forever!

25 - I know that my redeemer Or [vindicator] lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. Or [on my grave]

26 - And after my skin has been destroyed, yet Or [And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then] in Or [destroyed, / apart from] my flesh I will see God;

27 - I myself will see him with my own eyes - I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

28 - "If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts [me]'

29 - you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. Or [sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty]"