Job 19, side by side

¹Then Job answered,

¹Then Job answered and said,

²“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

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

³You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

³These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

⁴If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

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

⁵If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

⁵If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

⁶know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

⁶Know now that God hath overthrown me, 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.

⁷Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

⁸He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

⁸He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

⁹He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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

¹⁰He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

¹⁰He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

¹¹He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

¹¹He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

¹²His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

¹²His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

¹³“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

¹⁴My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

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

¹⁵Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

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

¹⁶I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

¹⁶I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

¹⁷My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

¹⁷My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

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

¹⁸Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

¹⁹All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

¹⁹All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

²⁰My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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

²¹“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

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

²²Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²²Why 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!

²³Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

²⁴That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

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

²⁵But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

²⁵For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

²⁶After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

²⁶And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

²⁷whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.

²⁷Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

²⁸If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

²⁸But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

²⁹be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

²⁹Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.