19:1 Then Job answered:
19:2 “How long will you torment me 2
and crush 3 me with your words? 4
19:3 These ten times 5 you have been reproaching me; 6
you are not ashamed to attack me! 7
19:4 But even if it were 8 true that I have erred, 9
my error 10 remains solely my concern!
19:5 If indeed 11 you would exalt yourselves 12 above me
and plead my disgrace against me, 13
19:6 know 14 then that God has wronged me 15
and encircled 16 me with his net. 17
19:7 “If 18 I cry out, 19 ‘Violence!’ 20
I receive no answer; 21
I cry for help,
but there is no justice.
19:8 He has blocked 22 my way so I cannot pass,
and has set darkness 23 over my paths.
19:9 He has stripped me of my honor
and has taken the crown off my head. 24
19:10 He tears me down 25 on every side until I perish; 26
he uproots 27 my hope 28 like one uproots 29 a tree.
19:11 Thus 30 his anger burns against me,
and he considers me among his enemies. 31
19:12 His troops 32 advance together;
they throw up 33 a siege ramp against me,
and they camp around my tent.
19:13 “He has put my relatives 34 far from me;
my acquaintances only 35 turn away from me.
19:14 My kinsmen have failed me;
my friends 36 have forgotten me. 37
19:15 My guests 38 and my servant girls
consider 39 me a stranger;
I am a foreigner 40 in their eyes.
19:16 I summon 41 my servant, but he does not respond,
even though I implore 42 him with my own mouth.
19:17 My breath is repulsive 43 to my wife;
I am loathsome 44 to my brothers. 45
19:18 Even youngsters have scorned me;
when I get up, 46 they scoff at me. 47
19:19 All my closest friends 48 detest me;
and those whom 49 I love have turned against me. 50
19:20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; 51
I have escaped 52 alive 53 with only the skin of my teeth.