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| 19:1 |
Then Job answered:
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| 19:2 |
'How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
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| 19:3 |
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;are you not ashamed to wrong me?
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| 19:4 |
And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
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| 19:5 |
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
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| 19:6 |
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
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| 19:7 |
Behold, I cry out, Violence!' but I am not answered;I call aloud, but there is no justice.
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| 19:8 |
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
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| 19:9 |
He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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| 19:10 |
He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
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| 19:11 |
He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
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| 19:12 |
His troops come on together;they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
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| 19:13 |
'He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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| 19:14 |
My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
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| 19:15 |
the guests in my house have forgotten me;my maidservants count me as a stranger;I have become an alien in their eyes.
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| 19:16 |
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;I must beseech him with my mouth.
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| 19:17 |
I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.
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| 19:18 |
Even young children despise me;when I rise they talk against me.
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| 19:19 |
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
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| 19:20 |
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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| 19:21 |
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
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| 19:22 |
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
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| 19:23 |
'Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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| 19:24 |
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
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| 19:25 |
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;
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| 19:26 |
and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,
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| 19:27 |
whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
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| 19:28 |
If you say, How we will pursue him!' and, The root of the matter is found in him';
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| 19:29 |
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.'
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