Job 19

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Then Job answered and said:	1 Then Job answered , and said:
2 How long will you vex my soul, grind me down with words?	2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times you have reviled me, have assailed me without shame!	3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
4 Be it indeed that I am at fault and that my fault remains with me,	4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
5 Even so, if you would vaunt yourselves against me and cast up to me any reproach,	5 But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
6 Know then that God has dealt unfairly with me, and compassed me round with his net.	6 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
7 If I cry out "Injustice!" I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no redress.	7 Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
8 He has barred my way and I cannot pass; he has veiled my path in darkness;	8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the diadem from my brow.	9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath 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.	10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
11 His wrath he has kindled against me; he counts me among his enemies.	11 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
12 His troops advance as one man; they build up their road to attack me, and they encamp around my tent.	12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
13 My brethren have withdrawn from me, and my friends are wholly estranged.	13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
14 My kinsfolk and companions neglect me, and my guests have forgotten me.	14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
15 Even my handmaids treat me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.	15 They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.
16 I call my servant, but he gives no answer, though in my speech I plead with him.	16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is abhorred by my wife; I am loathsome to the men of my family.	17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
18 The young children, too, despise me; when I appear, they speak against me.	18 Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
19 All my intimate friends hold me in horror; those whom I loved have turned against me!	19 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.
20 My bones cleave to my skin, and I have escaped with my flesh between my teeth.	20 The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
21 Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!	21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
22 Why do you hound me as though you were divine, and insatiably prey upon me?	22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
23 Oh, would that my words were written down! Would that they were inscribed in a record:	23 Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
24 That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever!	24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
25 But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust;	25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
26 And from my flesh I shall see God; my inmost being is consumed with longing.	26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
27 Whom I myself shall see: my own eyes, not another's, shall behold him,	27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
28 But you who say, "How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in him?"	28 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
29 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves, for these crimes deserve the sword; that you may know that there is a judgment.	29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.