Job 19:13-29

13“He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

14My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.

15My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.

17My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.

19All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.

20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. Or only by my gums

21“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

22Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

23“Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on Or and lead, or engraved in rock forever!

25I know that my redeemer Or vindicator lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. Or on my grave

26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then in Or destroyed, / apart from my flesh I will see God;

27I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

28“If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me ’ 29you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty ”