19: 2 How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
19: 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
19: 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
19: 5 181If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
181Or, Will ye indeed magnify ... my reproach?
19: 6 Know now that God hath 182subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.
182Or, overthrown me,
19: 7 Behold, I 183cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
183Or, cry out, Violence!
19: 8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
19: 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
19: 10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
19: 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.
19: 12 His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
19: 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And those of mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
19: 14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19: 15 They that 184dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
184Or, sojourn
19: 16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth.
19: 17 My breath is strange to my wife, And 185my supplication to the children 186of mine own mother.
185Or, I make supplication to or, I am loathsome to
186Or, of my body,
19: 18 Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
19: 19 All 187my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
187Hb. the men of my council abhor me,
19: 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
19: 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
19: 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
19: 23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
19: 24 That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
19: 25 For as to me, I know that my 188Ransomer liveth, And 189at last 190he shall rise upon this dust:
188Or, vindicator Hb. goēl
189Or, at the last day he shall rise etc.
190Hb. ...the dust or, he will stand up upon the earth
19: 26 191And after my skin is destroyed, even this body, Yet apart from this my flesh shall I see God;
191Or, And after my skin hath been thus struck off, Yet from my flesh shall I see God; or, And after my skin is struck off, this will be, Yet
19: 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, 192on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My 193heart is consumed within me.
192Or, for myself,
193Hb. kidneys (or, reins) are consumed
19: 28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
19: 29 Be ye afraid of the sword: For 194wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is that judgment.
194Or, wrathful are the punishments of the sword,
