Job 19
1Then Iyov answered and said, 1
2How long will ye torment my nefesh, 1 and crush me with words? 1
3These ten times have ye reproached me; 1 ye have no bushah that ye cause me astonishment. 1
4And be it indeed that I have erred, 1 mine meshugah (error) remaineth with myself. 1
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves above me, 1 and use against me my cherpah (reproach, humiliation), 1
6Have da'as now that Eloah hath put me in the wrong, 1 and hath encompassed me with his matzud (net). 1
7Behold, when I cry chamas, I am not heard; 1 I cry for help, but there is no mishpat. 1
8He hath fenced around my way that I cannot pass, 1 and set choshech in my paths. 1
9He hath stripped me of my kavod, 1 and taken the ateret from my rosh. 1
10He breaks me down on every side till I am gone, 1 and mine tikveh hath He uprooted like an etz. 1
11He hath also kindled His wrath against me, 1 and He counteth me unto Him as His tzar (enemy). 1
12His forces come together, 1 and raise up their siege ramp against me, 1 and encamp around my ohel. 1
13He hath put achai (my brethren) far from me, 1 and mine acquaintances are verily estranged from me. 1
14My kerov (near and dear) have failed, 1 and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 1
15They that dwell in mine bais, and my maidservants, count me for a zar; 1 I am a nokhri in their sight. 1
16I summoned avdi, and he gave me no answer; 1 I entreated him with my mouth. 1
17My ruach is repulsive to my isha, 1 loathsome to bnei beten of mine. 1
18Even avilim (little children) treat me with contempt; 1 I appear, and they ridicule me. 1
19All my metei sod (confidants) detest me, 1 and they whom I loved are turned against me. 1
20My etzem cleaveth to my ohr (skin) 1 and to my basar, 1 and I am escaped only by the skin of my teeth. 1
21Channuni, channuni, 1 O ye my friends; 1 for the yad Eloah hath touched me. 1
22Why do ye persecute me like El, 1 not satisfied with my basar? 1
23Oh that my words were but written! 1 O that they were recorded in a sefer! 1
24That they were engraved with a pen of barzel 1 and with oferet (lead) in the tzur forever! 1
25For Ani yadati Goeli chai (I know that my Redeemer liveth), 1 and that he shall stand up at Acharon (at the Last) upon aphar (dust, the earth); 1
26And though after my ohr (skin) has been thus destroyed, 1 yet from my basar I shall see Eloah; 1
27Whom I shall see for myself, 1 and mine eyes shall behold and no other; 1 my heart faints within me. 1
28But ye think, How we will persecute him, 1 seeing the shoresh (root) of the matter is found in me? 1
29Be ye afraid of the cherev; 1 for wrath bringeth the avonot (punishments) of the cherev, 1 that ye may know there is a judgment.