# Job 19 ## Job 19:1 - [KJV] Then Job answered and said, - [ASV] Then Job answered and said, - [YLT] And Job answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 19:1 - ## Job 19:2 - [KJV] How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? - [ASV] How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? - [YLT] Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? ### Notes on Job 19:2 - ## Job 19:3 - [KJV] These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed *that* ye make yourselves strange to me. - [ASV] These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. - [YLT] These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me -- ### Notes on Job 19:3 - ## Job 19:4 - [KJV] And be it indeed *that* I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. - [ASV] And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. - [YLT] And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain. ### Notes on Job 19:4 - ## Job 19:5 - [KJV] If indeed ye will magnify *yourselves* against me, and plead against me my reproach: - [ASV] If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; - [YLT] If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach; ### Notes on Job 19:5 - ## Job 19:6 - [KJV] Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. - [ASV] Know now that God hath subverted me *in my cause*, And hath compassed me with his net. - [YLT] Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round, ### Notes on Job 19:6 - ## Job 19:7 - [KJV] Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but *there is* no judgment. - [ASV] Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. - [YLT] Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment. ### Notes on Job 19:7 - ## Job 19:8 - [KJV] He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. - [ASV] He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths. - [YLT] My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth. ### Notes on Job 19:8 - ## Job 19:9 - [KJV] He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown *from* my head. - [ASV] He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. - [YLT] Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. ### Notes on Job 19:9 - ## Job 19:10 - [KJV] He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. - [ASV] He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree. - [YLT] He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. ### Notes on Job 19:10 - ## Job 19:11 - [KJV] He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as *one of* his enemies. - [ASV] He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as *one of* his adversaries. - [YLT] And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries. ### Notes on Job 19:11 - ## Job 19:12 - [KJV] His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. - [ASV] His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent. - [YLT] Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent. ### Notes on Job 19:12 - ## Job 19:13 - [KJV] He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. - [ASV] He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. - [YLT] My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. ### Notes on Job 19:13 - ## Job 19:14 - [KJV] My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. - [ASV] My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. - [YLT] Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, ### Notes on Job 19:14 - ## Job 19:15 - [KJV] They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. - [ASV] They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. - [YLT] Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes. ### Notes on Job 19:15 - ## Job 19:16 - [KJV] I called my servant, and he gave *me* no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. - [ASV] I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, *Though* I entreat him with my mouth. - [YLT] To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him. ### Notes on Job 19:16 - ## Job 19:17 - [KJV] My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's *sake* of mine own body. - [ASV] My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother. - [YLT] My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my *mother's* womb. ### Notes on Job 19:17 - ## Job 19:18 - [KJV] Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. - [ASV] Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me. - [YLT] Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me. ### Notes on Job 19:18 - ## Job 19:19 - [KJV] All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. - [ASV] All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me. - [YLT] Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me. ### Notes on Job 19:19 - ## Job 19:20 - [KJV] My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. - [ASV] My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. - [YLT] To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth. ### Notes on Job 19:20 - ## Job 19:21 - [KJV] Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. - [ASV] Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me. - [YLT] Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me. ### Notes on Job 19:21 - ## Job 19:22 - [KJV] Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? - [ASV] Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh? - [YLT] Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied? ### Notes on Job 19:22 - ## Job 19:23 - [KJV] Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! - [ASV] Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! - [YLT] Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven? ### Notes on Job 19:23 - ## Job 19:24 - [KJV] That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! - [ASV] That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever! - [YLT] With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn. ### Notes on Job 19:24 - ## Job 19:25 - [KJV] For I know *that* my redeemer liveth, and *that* he shall stand at the latter *day* upon the earth: - [ASV] But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: - [YLT] That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. ### Notes on Job 19:25 - ## Job 19:26 - [KJV] And *though* after my skin *worms* destroy this *body*, yet in my flesh shall I see God: - [ASV] And after my skin, *even* this *body*, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; - [YLT] And after my skin hath compassed this *body*, Then from my flesh I see God: ### Notes on Job 19:26 - ## Job 19:27 - [KJV] Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; *though* my reins be consumed within me. - [ASV] Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me. - [YLT] Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom. ### Notes on Job 19:27 - ## Job 19:28 - [KJV] But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? - [ASV] If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me; - [YLT] But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me. ### Notes on Job 19:28 - ## Job 19:29 - [KJV] Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath *bringeth* the punishments of the sword, that ye may know *there is* a judgment. - [ASV] Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath *bringeth* the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment. - [YLT] Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious *are* the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that *there is* a judgment. ### Notes on Job 19:29 -