Job: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 ,
mine 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 compassed 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 ro #
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He hath destroyed me on every side ,
and I am gone :
and mine hope hath he removed like a tree .
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me ,
and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies .
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His troops come together ,
and raise up their way against me ,
and encamp round about my tabernacle .
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my brethren far from me ,
and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me .
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My kinsfolk have failed ,
and my familiar friends have forgotten me .
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They that dwell in mine 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 intreated him with my mouth .
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My breath is strange to my wife ,
though I intreated for the childrens sake of mine own body .
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Yea ,
young children despised me ;
I arose ,
and they spake against me .
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All my inward 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 am 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 and lead in the rock for ever !
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For I know that my redeemer liveth ,
and that he shall 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 mine eyes shall behold ,
and not another ;
though my reins be consumed within me .
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But ye should 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 .