Job:19

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* Then Job answered and said : * "How long will you torment my soul , And break me in pieces with words ? * These ten times you have reproached me ; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me . * And if indeed I have erred , My error remains with me . * If indeed you exalt yourselves against me , And plead my disgrace against me , * Know then that God has wronged me , And has surrounded me with His net . * "If I cry out concerning wrong , I am not heard . If I cry aloud , there is no justice . * He has fenced up my way , so that I cannot pass ; And He has set darkness in my paths . * He has stripped me of my glory , And taken the crown from my head . * He breaks me down on every side , And I am gone ; My hope He has uprooted like a tree . * He has also kindled His wrath against me , And He counts me as one of His enemies . * His troops come together And build up their road against me ; They encamp all around my tent . * "He has removed my brothers far from me , And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me . * My relatives have failed , And my close friends have forgotten me . * Those who dwell in my house , and my maidservants , Count me as a stranger ; I am an alien in their sight . * I call my servant , but he gives no answer ; I beg him with my mouth . * My breath is offensive to my wife , And I am repulsive to the children of my own body . * Even young children despise me ; I arise , and they speak against me . * All my close friends abhor me , And those whom I love have turned against me . * My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh , And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth . * "Have pity on me , have pity on me , O you my friends , For the hand of God has struck me ! * Why do you persecute me as God does , And are not satisfied with my flesh ? * "Oh , that my words were written ! Oh , that they were inscribed in a book ! * That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead , forever ! * For I know that my Redeemer lives , And He shall stand at last on the earth ; * And after my skin is destroyed , this I know , That in my flesh I shall see God , * Whom I shall see for myself , And my eyes shall behold , and not another . How my heart yearns within me ! * If you should say , "How shall we persecute him ?'-- Since the root of the matter is found in me , * Be afraid of the sword for yourselves ; For wrath brings the punishment of the sword , That you may know there is a judgment ."

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