{"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/drb/job/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T15:35:51.294Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words? "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh? "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book? "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him? "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 19 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 19](https://primebible.com/drb/job/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/19 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}