en_cepher - Job 19 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ THEN Iyov answered and said,

² How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

³ These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

⁵ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

⁶ Know now that Eloah has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

⁸ He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.

¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.

¹² His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

¹³ He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are truly estranged from me.

¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶ I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my woman, though I intreated for the children's sake of my own body.

¹⁸ Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

¹⁹ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

²⁰ My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of Eloah has touched me.

²² Why do ye persecute me as El, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a cepher!

²⁴ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

²⁶ And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see Eloah:

²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my mind be consumed within me.

²⁸ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

²⁹ Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.