Job 19

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 But Job answered by saying:	1 Then Job answered and said:
2 How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?	2 How long will you vex my soul, grind me down with words?
3 So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me.	3 These ten times you have reviled me, have assailed me without shame!
4 Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me.	4 Be it indeed that I am at fault and that my fault remains with me,
5 But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace.	5 Even so, if you would vaunt yourselves against me and cast up to me any reproach,
6 At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges.	6 Know then that God has dealt unfairly with me, and compassed me round with his net.
7 Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.	7 If I cry out "Injustice!" I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no redress.
8 He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.	8 He has barred my way and I cannot pass; he has veiled my path in darkness;
9 He has plundered me of my glory, and he has stolen the crown from my head.	9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the diadem from my brow.
10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope.	10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope he has uprooted like a tree.
11 His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy.	11 His wrath he has kindled against me; he counts me among his enemies.
12 His troops have gathered together, and they have made their way to me, and they have besieged my tabernacle all around.	12 His troops advance as one man; they build up their road to attack me, and they encamp around my tent.
13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have withdrawn from me like strangers.	13 My brethren have withdrawn from me, and my friends are wholly estranged.
14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and those who knew me, have forgotten me.	14 My kinsfolk and companions neglect me, and my guests have forgotten me.
15 The inhabitants of my house and my maidservants treat me just as if I were a stranger, and I have been like an sojourner in their eyes.	15 Even my handmaids treat me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he did not respond; I pleaded with him with my own mouth.	16 I call my servant, but he gives no answer, though in my speech I plead with him.
17 My wife has shuddered at my breath, and I have begged the sons of my loins.	17 My breath is abhorred by my wife; I am loathsome to the men of my family.
18 Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me.	18 The young children, too, despise me; when I appear, they speak against me.
19 Those who were sometime my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me.	19 All my intimate friends hold me in horror; those whom I loved have turned against me!
20 Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth.	20 My bones cleave to my skin, and I have escaped with my flesh between my teeth.
21 Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me.	21 Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!
22 Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh?	22 Why do you hound me as though you were divine, and insatiably prey upon me?
23 Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,	23 Oh, would that my words were written down! Would that they were inscribed in a record:
24 with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone?	24 That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever!
25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.	25 But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust;
26 And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.	26 And from my flesh I shall see God; my inmost being is consumed with longing.
27 It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom.	27 Whom I myself shall see: my own eyes, not another's, shall behold him,
28 Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”	28 But you who say, "How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in him?"
29 So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment.	29 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves, for these crimes deserve the sword; that you may know that there is a judgment.