Job 19  Legacy Standard Bible

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

¹³ “He has ^(P)removed my brothers far from me,
And my ^(Q)acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
¹⁴ My relatives have failed,
And my ^(R)familiar friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵ Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.
¹⁶ I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is ^[c]offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
¹⁸ Even young children reject me;
I rise up, and they speak against me.
¹⁹ All the men of my ^(S)counsel abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.
²⁰ My ^(T)bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
²¹ Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the ^(U)hand of God has smitten me.
²² Why do you ^(V)persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were ^(W)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 ^(X)my ^[d]Redeemer lives,
And ^[e]at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world.
²⁶ Even after my skin ^[f]is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall ^(Y)behold God,
²⁷ Whom I ^[g]myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My ^[h]heart ^(Z)faints ^[i]within me!
²⁸ If you say, ‘How shall we ^(AA)persecute him?’
‘And the root of the matter is found in ^[j]him?’
²⁹ Then be afraid of ^(AB)the sword for yourselves,
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
So that you may know ^(AC)there is judgment.”