19:1Then Job answered and said,

19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

19:5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

19:9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

19:10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

19:11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

19:12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

19:14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

19:15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

19:16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

19:17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

19:18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

19:22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

19:23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

19:24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

19:25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

19:26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

19:27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

19:28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

19:29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

24:1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

24:2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

24:4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

24:6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

24:7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

24:10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

24:11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

24:13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

24:14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

24:15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

24:16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

24:17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

24:18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

24:20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

24:21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

24:22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

24:23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

24:24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

24:25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?