| Chapter 19 |
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Then Job answered and said, --
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How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? --
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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. --
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And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remaineth with myself. --
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: --
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Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath encompassed me with his net. --
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. --
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He hath fenced 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 hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree. --
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as one of his enemies. --
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His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle. --
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are verily estranged from me. --
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My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. --
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They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. --
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I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. --
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My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body. --
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Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. --
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All my intimate friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. --
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. --
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. --
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Why do ye 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 printed in a book! --
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That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever! --
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For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he will stand at the latter day upon the earth: --
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: --
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Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. --
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But ye would say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? --
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Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. --
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