Job 19

¹Then Job answered and said,

²How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

³These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

⁴And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

⁵If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

⁶Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.

⁷Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

⁸He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

⁹He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

¹¹He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

¹²His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

¹⁴My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.