Job 19:13-29 - I Am Forgotten

¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. ¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me. ²⁰ My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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

²³ O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book, ²⁴ that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead! ²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

²⁸ If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that 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.