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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 is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.
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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 around me.
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| 19:7 |
Even when I cry out, 'Violence!' 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 my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
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| 19:10 |
He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, he has uprooted my hope 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 thrown up siegeworks against me, and encamp around my tent.
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| 19:13 |
"He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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| 19:14 |
My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
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| 19:15 |
the guests in my house have forgotten me; my serving girls 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 myself plead with him.
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| 19:17 |
My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
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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 cling 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, never satisfied with my flesh?
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| 19:23 |
"O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book!
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| 19:24 |
O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!
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| 19:25 |
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
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| 19:26 |
and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in 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 persecute 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, so that you may know there is a judgment."
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