Job 19:13-29 ▼

13 My brothers He has put far from me, and my acquaintances surely are estranged from me.

14 Those near to me have ceased, and those known to me have forgotten me.

15 Those who sojourn in my house, and my maidservants, they reckon me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

16 I call to my servant, and he does not answer; with my mouth I seek favor from him.

17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my womb.

18 Even little boys despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.

19 All the men of my counsel abhor me; and those I love have turned against me.

20 My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21 Pity me, pity me, you? my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

22 Why do you? pursue me as God does? Are you? not even satisfied with my flesh?

23 Who will grant now that my words should be written? Who will grant that they be inscribed in a book,

24 with a pen of iron and with lead, they would be engraved forever in the rock!

25 And I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the dust.

26 And after they strike off my skin thus, yet in my flesh I will see God.

27 He whom I will see for myself, indeed my eyes will see, and not a stranger. My kidneys yearn in my bosom!

28 If you? should say, ‘How we will pursue after him,’ and ‘The root of the matter is found with him,’

29 be afraid for yourselves of the face of the sword, for from wrath is the punishment of the sword, so that you? may know there is a judgment.”