Job:19

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* Then Job answered : * "How long will you torment me , and break me in pieces with words ? * These ten times you have cast reproach upon me ; are you not ashamed to wrong me ? * And even if it be true that I have erred , my error remains with myself . * If indeed you magnify yourselves against me , and make my humiliation an argument against me , * know then that God has put me in the wrong , and closed his net about me . * Behold , I cry out , `hold , I cry out , "Violence !' but I am not answered ; I call aloud , but there is no justice . * He has walled up my way , so that I cannot pass , and he has set darkness upon my paths . * He has stripped from me my glory , and taken the crown from my head . * He breaks me down on every side , and I am gone , and my hope has he pulled up like a tree . * He has kindled his wrath against me , and counts me as his adversary . * His troops come on together ; they have cast up siegeworks against me , and encamp round about my tent . * "He has put my brethren far from me , and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me . * My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me ; * the guests in my house have forgotten me ; my maidservants count me as a stranger ; I have become an alien in their eyes . * I call to my servant , but he gives me no answer ; I must beseech him with my mouth . * I am repulsive to my wife , loathsome to the sons of my own mother . * Even young children despise me ; when I rise they talk against me . * All my intimate friends abhor me , and those whom I loved have turned against me . * My bones cleave 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 touched me ! * Why do you , like God , pursue me ? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh ? * "Oh that my words were written ! Oh that they were inscribed in a book ! * Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever ! * For I know that my Redeemer lives , and at last he will stand upon the earth ; * and after my skin has been thus destroyed , then from my flesh I shall see God , * whom I shall see on my side , and my eyes shall behold , and not another . My heart faints within me ! * If you say , `e him !' and , `s found in him '; * be afraid of the sword , for wrath brings the punishment of the sword , that you may know there is a judgment ."

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