Job 19:8-22 - What God Has Done To Me

⁸ He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has broken me on every side, and I am gone, and He has uprooted my hope like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy. ¹² His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and camp around my tent.

¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me. ¹⁴ My people have fallen away, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. ¹⁶ I called my servant, and he gave no answer; I must beg him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is hated by my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my mother's womb. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. ¹⁹ All the men of my counsel detest me, even this one I loved has turned against me. ²⁰ My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me. ²² Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh?