Job 19 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^19:1 Then Job answered and said,
^19:2 How long will you⁺ vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
^19:3 These ten times you⁺ have reproached me: You⁺ are not ashamed that you⁺ deal harshly with me.
^19:4 And if indeed I have erred, My 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 God has subverted me [in my cause], And has surrounded me with his net.
^19:7 Look, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
^19:8 He has walled up my way that I can't pass, And 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 broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope he has plucked up like a tree.
^19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, And he counts me to him as [one of] his adversaries.
^19:12 His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
^19:13 He has put my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
^19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
^19:15 Those who dwell in my house, and my female slaves, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
^19:16 I call to my slave, and he gives me no answer, [Though] I plead to him with my mouth.
^19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the sons of my own mother.
^19:18 Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
^19:19 All my familiar friends are disgusted by me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
^19:20 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
^19:21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you⁺ my companions; For the hand of God has touched me.
^19:22 Why do you⁺ persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
^19:23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
^19:24 That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
^19:25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, And at last he will stand up on the earth:
^19:26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh will I see God;
^19:27 Whom I, even I, will see, on my side, And my eyes will behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed inside me.
^19:28 If you⁺ say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
^19:29 Be⁺ afraid of the sword: For wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, That you⁺ may know there is a judgment.

Job, Chapter 19