| Chapter 19 |
1 | And Job answered and said,
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2 | How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
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3 | These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
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4 | And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
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5 | If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
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6 | Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
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7 | Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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8 | He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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9 | He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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10 | 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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11 | And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
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12 | His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
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13 | He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
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14 | My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
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15 | The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
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16 | I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
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17 | My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
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18 | Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
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19 | All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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20 | My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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21 | Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
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22 | Why do ye persecute me as łGod, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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23 | Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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24 | That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
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25 | And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
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26 | And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
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27 | Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: -- my reins are consumed within me.
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28 | If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,
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29 | 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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