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19:1  Then Job answered:
19:2  ‘How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
19:3  These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
19:4  And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.
19:5  If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
19:6  know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me.
19:7  Even when I cry out, “Violence!” I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
19:8  He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
19:9  He has stripped my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
19:10  He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, he has uprooted my hope like a tree.
19:11  He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
19:12  His troops come on together; they have thrown up siege-works against me, and encamp around my tent.
19:13  ‘He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
19:14  My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
19:15  the guests in my house have forgotten me; my serving-girls count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
19:16  I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must myself plead with him.
19:17  My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
19:18  Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me.
19:19  All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
19:20  My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
19:22  Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  ‘O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book!
19:24  O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock for ever!
19:25  For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
19:26  and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,
19:27  whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
19:28  If you say, “How we will persecute him!” and, “The root of the matter is found in him”;
19:29  be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgement.’