Job 19

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Job spoke next. He said:	1 Then Job answered , and said:
2 How much longer are you going to torment me and crush me by your speeches?	2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 You have insulted me ten times already: have you no shame at maltreating me?	3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
4 Even if I had gone astray, my error would still be my own affair.	4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
5 But, whereas you take this superior attitude and claim that my disgrace is my own fault,	5 But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
6 I tel you that God has wronged me and enveloped me in 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 protest against such violence, I am not heard, if I appeal against it, judgement is never given.	7 Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
8 He has built an impassable wal across my path and covered my way with 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 deprived me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.	9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
10 He assails me from al directions to make me vanish; he uproots my hope as he might 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 Inflamed with anger against me, he regards me as his foe.	11 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
12 His troops have come in force, directing their line of advance towards me, they are now encampedround my tent.	12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
13 He has alienated my brothers from me, my relatives take care to avoid me,	13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
14 my intimate friends have gone away and the guests in my house have forgotten me.	14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
15 My slave-girls regard me as an intruder, a stranger as far as they are concerned.	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 My servant does not answer when I cal him, I am obliged to beg favours from him!	16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is unbearable to my wife, my stench to my own brothers.	17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
18 Even the children look down on me, whenever I stand up, they start jeering at me.	18 Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.
19 All my dearest friends recoil from me in horror: those I loved best 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 flesh is rotting under my skin, my bones are sticking out like 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, my friends, since I have been struck by the hand of God.	21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
22 Must you persecute me just as God does, and give my body no peace?	22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
23 Will no one let my words be recorded, inscribed on some monument	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 with iron chisel and engraving tool, cut into the rock for ever?	24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
25 I know that I have a living Defender and that he wil rise up last, on the dust of the earth.	25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
26 After my awakening, he wil set me close to him, and from my flesh I shall look on God.	26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
27 He whom I shal see wil take my part: my eyes will be gazing on no stranger. My heart sinks withinme.	27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
28 When you say, 'How can we confound him? What pretext can we discover against him?'	28 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
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!	29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.