Job 19

² “How long will you torment ^[b]me
And crush me with words?
³ “These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
⁴ “Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.
⁵ “If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
⁶ Know then that God has wronged me
And has closed His net around me.

⁷ “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
⁸ “He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.
⁹ “He has stripped my honor from me
And removed the crown from my head.
¹⁰ “He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
¹¹ “He has also kindled His anger against me
And considered me as His enemy.
¹² “His troops come together,
And build up their ^[c]way against me
And camp around my tent.

²³ “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
²⁴ “That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
²⁵ “As for me, I know that my ^[f]Redeemer lives,
And ^[g]at the last He will take His stand on the ^[h]earth.
²⁶ “Even after my skin ^[i]is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
²⁷ Whom I ^[j]myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My ^[k]heart faints ^[l]within me!
²⁸ “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘^[m]What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
²⁹ “Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”