{"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/erv/job/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T21:41:20.386Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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 ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, and hath compassed me with his net."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no judgment."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and 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 hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he plucked up like a tree."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, though I entreat him with my mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the children of my mother's womb."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Even young children despise me; if I arise, they speak against me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"All my inward friends abhor me: and they whom I loved are turned against me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My bone cleaveth 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, O 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 that my words were now written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand up at the last upon the earth:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, yet from 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 we will persecute him! seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 19 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 19](https://primebible.com/erv/job/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/19 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}