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| 19:1 |
Then Job responded,
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| 19:2 |
"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
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| 19:3 |
"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
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| 19:4 |
"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.
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| 19:5 |
"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
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| 19:6 |
Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
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| 19:7 |
"Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, 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 put darkness on my paths.
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| 19:9 |
"He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
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| 19:10 |
"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
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| 19:11 |
"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.
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| 19:12 |
"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
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| 19:13 |
"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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| 19:14 |
"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
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| 19:15 |
"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
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| 19:16 |
"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.
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| 19:17 |
"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
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| 19:18 |
"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.
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| 19:19 |
"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.
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| 19:20 |
"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
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| 19:21 |
"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.
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| 19:22 |
"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are 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 |
"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
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| 19:25 |
"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
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| 19:26 |
"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
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| 19:27 |
Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
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| 19:28 |
"If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?'
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| 19:29 |
"Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."
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