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

⁸ "He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate. ⁹ He hath spoiled me of mine honour, and taken the crown away from my head. ¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root. ¹¹ His wrath is kindled against me; he taketh me, as though I were his enemy. ¹² His men of war came together, which made their way over me, and besieged my dwelling round about.

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?