Job 19:13-29 - I Am Forgotten

¹³ He hath put my brethren far away from me, and such as were of mine acquaintance, are become strangers unto me. ¹⁴ Mine own kinfolk have forsaken me, and my friends have put me out of remembrance. ¹⁵ The servants and maids of mine own house take me for a stranger, and I am become as an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ When I call upon my servant, he giveth me no answer: no though I pray him with my mouth. ¹⁷ Mine own wife may not abide my breath, I was fain to speak fair for the children of mine own body. ¹⁸ Yea the children despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spake evil upon me. ¹⁹ All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me. ²⁰ My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends! For the hand of God hath touched me. ²² Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied of my flesh?

²³ O that my words were written, O that they were put in a book: ²⁴ would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone. ²⁵ "For I am sure that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the latter day: ²⁶ that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh. ²⁷ Yea, I myself shall behold him - not with other, but with these same eyes, though my reins are consumed within me.

²⁸ Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me? ²⁹ But beware of the sword, for the sword will be avenged of wickedness. And be sure, that there is a judgment."