{"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/ylt/job/19","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T08:24:58.064Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":19,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":18,"nextChapter":20,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answereth and saith: — "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me — "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And also — truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Lo, I cry out — violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"With a pen of iron and lead — For ever in a rock they may be hewn."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Whom I — I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious are the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that there is a judgment."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 19 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 19](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/19)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/19 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}