19:1 Then Job answered and said,
19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
19:6 Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.
19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
19:8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
19:10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto 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 hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
19:16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth.
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
19:18 Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
19:19 All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
19:22 Why do ye 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 graven in the rock for ever!
19:25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
19:26 And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
19:27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
19:28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.
20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
20:2 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
20:3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
20:4 Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,
20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?
20:6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;
20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
20:9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
20:10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.
20:11 His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
20:13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
20:14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.
20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him.
20:17 He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
20:18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
20:19 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
20:20 Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.
20:21 There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.
20:25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
20:26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown by man shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
20:27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
20:28 The increase of his house shall depart; His goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God.