| Chapter 19 |
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And Job answered and said, --
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How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words? --
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These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me. --
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And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. --
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach, --
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Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. --
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. --
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He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. --
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He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. --
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He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree. --
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And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies. --
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His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent. --
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me. --
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My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me. --
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The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. --
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I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth. --
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My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb. --
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Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me. --
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. --
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My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. --
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me. --
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Why do ye persecute me as łGod, and are not satisfied with my flesh? --
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Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book! --
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That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! --
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And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth; --
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And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God; --
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Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: -- my reins are consumed within me. --
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If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me, --
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Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment. --
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