19:1 Then Job answered:
19:2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
19:3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
19:4 But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!
19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
19:6 know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.
19:7 “If I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
19:9 He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.
19:10 He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
19:11 Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
19:12 His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.
19:13 “He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
19:14 My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
19:15 My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
19:16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.
19:17 My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.