Part 17

18:019:019 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

18:019:020 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

18:019:021 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

18:019:022 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

18:019:023 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

18:019:024 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

18:019:025 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

18:019:026 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

18:019:027 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

18:019:028 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

18:019:029 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

18:020:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:020:002 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

18:020:003 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

18:020:004 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

18:020:005 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

18:020:006 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

18:020:007 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

18:020:008 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

18:020:009 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

18:020:010 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

18:020:011 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

18:020:012 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

18:020:013 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

18:020:014 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

18:020:015 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

18:020:016 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

18:020:017 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.