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== Iyov (Book of Job), Chapter 19 ==

<named id="1"/>1 Then Job answered and said:

<named id="2"/>2 How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?

<named id="3"/>3 These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed that ye deal harshly with me.

<named id="4"/>4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

<named id="5"/>5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

<named id="6"/>6 Know now that G-d hath subverted my cause, and hath compassed me with His net.

<named id="7"/>7 Behold, I cry out: 'Violence!' but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

<named id="8"/>8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and hath set darkness in my paths.

<named id="9"/>9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

<named id="10"/>10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath He plucked up like a tree.

<named id="11"/>11 He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of His adversaries.

<named id="12"/>12 His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.

<named id="13"/>13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

<named id="14"/>14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

<named id="15"/>15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am become an alien in their sight.

<named id="16"/>16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, though I entreat him with my mouth.

<named id="17"/>17 My breath is abhorred of my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my tribe.

<named id="18"/>18 Even urchins despised me; if I arise, they speak against me.

<named id="19"/>19 All my intimate friends abhor me; and they whom I loved are turned against me.

<named id="20"/>20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

<named id="21"/>21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of G-d hath touched me.

<named id="22"/>22 Why do ye persecute me as G-d, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

<named id="23"/>23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

<named id="24"/>24 That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

<named id="25"/>25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He will witness at the last upon the dust;

<named id="26"/>26 And when after my skin this is destroyed, then without my flesh shall I see G-d;

<named id="27"/>27 Whom I, even I, shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another's. My reins are consumed within me.

<named id="28"/>28 If ye say: 'How we will persecute him!' seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;

<named id="29"/>29 Be ye afraid of the sword; for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

== See also ==
* [[Iyov 18|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Iyov 19 Commentaries]]
* [[Iyov 20|Next Chapter]]

== References ==
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