Job 19:1-17 ▼

1 Then Job answered:

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

3 Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

4 Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

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

6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

7 Though I cry out, ‘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 veiled my paths with darkness.

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

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

11 His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

12 His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

13 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

14 My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

15 My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

17 My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.