{"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/dbt/job/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:00:15.561Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":19,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":18,"nextChapter":20,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And be it that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: my reins are consumed within me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 19 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 19](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/19 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}