Job 19

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Then Job answered and said,	1 Job spoke next. He said:
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?	2 How much longer are you going to torment me and crush me by your speeches?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.	3 You have insulted me ten times already: have you no shame at maltreating me?
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.	4 Even if I had gone astray, my error would still be my own affair.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:	5 But, whereas you take this superior attitude and claim that my disgrace is my own fault,
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.	6 I tel you that God has wronged me and enveloped me in his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.	7 If I protest against such violence, I am not heard, if I appeal against it, judgement is never given.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.	8 He has built an impassable wal across my path and covered my way with darkness.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.	9 He has deprived me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.	10 He assails me from al directions to make me vanish; he uproots my hope as he might a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.	11 Inflamed with anger against me, he regards me as his foe.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.	12 His troops have come in force, directing their line of advance towards me, they are now encampedround my tent.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.	13 He has alienated my brothers from me, my relatives take care to avoid me,
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.	14 my intimate friends have gone away and the guests in my house have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.	15 My slave-girls regard me as an intruder, a stranger as far as they are concerned.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.	16 My servant does not answer when I cal him, I am obliged to beg favours from him!
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.	17 My breath is unbearable to my wife, my stench to my own brothers.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.	18 Even the children look down on me, whenever I stand up, they start jeering at me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.	19 All my dearest friends recoil from me in horror: those I loved best have turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.	20 My flesh is rotting under my skin, my bones are sticking out like teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.	21 Pity me, pity me, my friends, since I have been struck by the hand of God.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?	22 Must you persecute me just as God does, and give my body no peace?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!	23 Will no one let my words be recorded, inscribed on some monument
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!	24 with iron chisel and engraving tool, cut into the rock for ever?
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:	25 I know that I have a living Defender and that he wil rise up last, on the dust of the earth.
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:	26 After my awakening, he wil set me close to him, and from my flesh I shall look on God.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.	27 He whom I shal see wil take my part: my eyes will be gazing on no stranger. My heart sinks withinme.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?	28 When you say, 'How can we confound him? What pretext can we discover against him?'
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.	29 You yourselves had best beware the sword, since the wrath bursts into flame at wicked deeds andthen you wil learn that there is indeed a judgement!