{"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/web/job/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T03:10:14.209Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":19,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":18,"nextChapter":20,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If it is true 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 subverted me, and has surrounded 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 justice."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and 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 broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"|Have pity on me, have pity on me, 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 inscribed in a book!"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. |My heart is consumed within me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 19 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 19](https://primebible.com/web/job/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/19 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}