Job 19:1-14 ▼

1 And Job answers and says:

2 “Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words?

3 These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me—

4 And also—truly, I have erred, || My error remains with me.

5 If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, || And decide my reproach against me;

6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, || And has set around His net against me,

7 Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

8 He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.

9 He has stripped my honor from off me, || And He turns the crown from my head.

10 He breaks me down all around, and I go, || And removes my hope like a tree.

11 And He kindles His anger against me, || And reckons me to Him as His adversaries.

12 His troops come in together, || And they raise up their way against me, || And encamp around my tent.

13 He has put my brothers far off from me, || And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.

14 My neighbors have ceased || And my familiar friends have forgotten me,