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| 19:1 |
And Job answereth and saith: --
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| 19:2 |
Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
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| 19:3 |
These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --
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| 19:4 |
And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
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| 19:5 |
If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
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| 19:6 |
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
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| 19:7 |
Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
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| 19:8 |
My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
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| 19:9 |
Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
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| 19:10 |
He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
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| 19:11 |
And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
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| 19:12 |
Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
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| 19:13 |
My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
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| 19:14 |
Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
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| 19:15 |
Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
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| 19:16 |
To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
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| 19:17 |
My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.
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| 19:18 |
Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
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| 19:19 |
Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
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| 19:20 |
To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
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| 19:21 |
Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
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| 19:22 |
Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
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| 19:23 |
Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
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| 19:24 |
With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
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| 19:25 |
That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
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| 19:26 |
And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God:
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| 19:27 |
Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
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| 19:28 |
But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.
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| 19:29 |
Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a judgment.
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