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| 19:1 |
Then Job replied:
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| 19:2 |
"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
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| 19:3 |
Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.
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| 19:4 |
If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
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| 19:5 |
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
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| 19:6 |
then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
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| 19:7 |
"Though I cry, `I've been wronged!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
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| 19:8 |
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
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| 19:9 |
He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
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| 19:10 |
He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
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| 19:11 |
His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
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| 19:12 |
His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
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| 19:13 |
"He has alienated my brothers from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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| 19:14 |
My kinsmen have gone away; my friends have forgotten me.
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| 19:15 |
My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger; they look upon me as an alien.
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| 19:16 |
I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
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| 19:17 |
My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.
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| 19:18 |
Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
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| 19:19 |
All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
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| 19:20 |
I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
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| 19:21 |
"Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
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| 19:22 |
Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
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| 19:23 |
"Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
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| 19:24 |
that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
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| 19:25 |
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
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| 19:26 |
And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
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| 19:27 |
I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
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| 19:28 |
"If you say, `How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,
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| 19:29 |
'you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment."
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