# Job 19 (New King James Version)
Job Trusts in His Redeemer

##### Chapter 19
###### 1 Then Job answered and said:

###### 2 "How long will you torment my soul,  
And break me in pieces with words?  

###### 3 These ten times you have reproached me;  
You are not ashamed _that_ you have wronged me.  

###### 4 And if indeed I have erred,  
My error remains with me.  

###### 5 If indeed you exalt _yourselves_ against me,  
And plead my disgrace against me,  

###### 6 Know then that God has wronged me,  
And has surrounded me with His net.

###### 7 "If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard.  
If I cry aloud, _there is_ no justice.  

###### 8 He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass;  
And He has set darkness in my paths.  

###### 9 He has stripped me of my glory,  
And taken the crown _from_ my head.  

###### 10 He breaks me down on every side,  
And I am gone;  
My hope He has uprooted like a tree.  

###### 11 He has also kindled His wrath against me,  
And He counts me as _one of_ His enemies.  

###### 12 His troops come together  
And build up their road against me;  
They encamp all around my tent.

###### 13 "He has removed my brothers far from me,  
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.  

###### 14 My relatives have failed,  
And my close friends have forgotten me.  

###### 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,  
Count me as a stranger;  
I am an alien in their sight.  

###### 16 I call my servant, but he gives no answer;  
I beg him with my mouth.  

###### 17 My breath is offensive to my wife,  
And I am repulsive to the children of my own body.  

###### 18 Even young children despise me;  
I arise, and they speak against me.  

###### 19 All my close friends abhor me,  
And those whom I love have turned against me.  

###### 20 My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,  
And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

###### 21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,  
For the hand of God has struck me!  

###### 22 Why do you persecute me as God _does,_  
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

###### 23 "Oh, that my words were written!  
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!  

###### 24 That they were engraved on a rock  
With an iron pen and lead, forever!  

###### 25 For I know _that_ my Redeemer lives,  
And He shall stand at last on the earth;  

###### 26 And after my skin is destroyed, this _I know,_  
That in my flesh I shall see God,  

###### 27 Whom I shall see for myself,  
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.  
_How_ my heart yearns within me!  

###### 28 If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?'--  
Since the root of the matter is found in me,  

###### 29 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;  
For wrath _brings_ the punishment of the sword,  
That you may know _there is_ a judgment."