{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:36:26.837Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":19,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":18,"nextChapter":20,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly estranged from me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day on the earth:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 19 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 19](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/19 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}