{"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/kjv/job/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T02:39:25.784Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 <i>that</i> ye make yourselves strange to me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And be it indeed <i>that</i> I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If indeed ye will magnify <i>yourselves</i> against me, and plead against me my reproach:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but <i>there is</i> no judgment."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He hath fenced 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 <i>from</i> my head."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as <i>one of</i> 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 hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily 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 called my servant, and he gave <i>me</i> no answer; I intreated him with my mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's <i>sake</i> of mine own body."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake 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 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 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 <i>that</i> my redeemer liveth, and <i>that</i> he shall stand at the latter <i>day</i> upon the earth:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And <i>though</i> after my skin <i>worms</i> destroy this <i>body</i>, yet in my flesh shall I see God:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; <i>though</i> my reins be consumed within me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath <i>bringeth</i> the punishments of the sword, that ye may know <i>there is</i> a judgment."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 19 (KJV)","markdown":"[Job 19](https://primebible.com/kjv/job/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/job/19 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}