019:001 Then Job answered, 019:002 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? 019:003 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me. 019:004 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. 019:005 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach; 019:006 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net. 019:007 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. 019:008 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths. 019:009 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 019:010 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree. 019:011 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. 019:012 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. 019:013 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. 019:014 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. 019:015 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. 019:016 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. 019:017 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. 019:018 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. 019:019 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me. 019:020 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 019:021 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. 019:022 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 019:023 "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 019:024 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! 019:025 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. 019:026 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, 019:027 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me. 019:028 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me, 019:029 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment." 020:001 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, 020:002 "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me. 020:003 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.