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Job 19
1Then Job answered,
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2“How long will you torment me,
- and crush me with words?
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3You have reproached me ten times.
- You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
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4If it is true that I have erred,
- my error remains with myself.
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5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
- and plead against me my reproach;
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6know now that God has subverted me,
- and has surrounded me with his net.
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7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
- I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
- and has set darkness in my paths.
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9He has stripped me of my glory,
- and taken the crown from my head.
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10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
- My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
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11He has also kindled his wrath against me.
- He counts me among his adversaries.
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12His troops come on together,
- build a siege ramp against me,
- and encamp around my tent.
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13“He has put my brothers far from me.
- My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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14My relatives have gone away.
- My familiar friends have forgotten me.
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15Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger.
- I am an alien in their sight.
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16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
- I beg him with my mouth.
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17My breath is offensive to my wife.
- I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
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18Even young children despise me.
- If I arise, they speak against me.
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19All my familiar friends abhor me.
- They whom I loved have turned against me.
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20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
- I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends;
- for the hand of God has touched me.
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22Why do you persecute me as God,
- and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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23“Oh that my words were now written!
- Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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24That with an iron pen and lead
- they were engraved in the rock forever!
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25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
- In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
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26After my skin is destroyed,
- then in my flesh shall I see God,
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27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side.
- My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger.
- “My heart is consumed within me.
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28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
- because the root of the matter is found in me,
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29be afraid of the sword,
- for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
- that you may know there is a judgment.”
