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