19:1 Then Iyov answered and said,
19:2 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
19:3 These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed [that] you make yourselves strange to me.
19:4 And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remains with myself.
19:5 If indeed you will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:
19:6 Know now that Elo'ah (אלוהּ) has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.
19:8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.
19:10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope has he removed like a tree.
19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as [one of] his enemies.
19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
19:13 He has put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
19:16 I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
19:20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my tes.
19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of EL (אל) has touched me.
19:22 Why do you persecute me as EL (אל), and are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
19:25 וַאֲנִ֣י יָ֭דַעְתִּי גֹּ֣אֲלִי חָ֑י וְ֝אַחֲר֗וֹן עַל־עָפָ֥ר יָקֽוּם׃
Va'ani yada'ti go'ali chai; ve'acharon, al-'afar yakum.For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
19:26 And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see Elo'ah (אלוהּ):
19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.
19:28 But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
19:29 Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, that you may know [there is] a judgment.