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 magnify yourselves against me , and adjudge my reproach against me , * know then that God has bowed me , and has surrounded me with His net . * Behold , I cry out concerning injustice , but I am not heard . I cry aloud , but 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 left , and my close friends have forgotten me . * Those who dwell in my house , and my maidservants , count me as a stranger ; I am a foreigner in their eyes . * I have called my servant , but he does not answer ; I implored him with my mouth . * My breath is loathsome to my wife , and I must entreat the favor of children for the sake of my own body . * Even young children despise me ; I arise , and they speak against me . * My circle of friends have abhorred me , and those whom I have loved 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 the Mighty God does , and are not satisfied with my flesh ? * Oh , that my words were now written ! Oh , that they were inscribed in a book ! * That they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead ! * For I know that my Redeemer is alive , and He shall stand at the latter time upon the earth ; * and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh , I shall see God : * Whom I shall see for myself , and my eyes shall behold , and not a stranger . O how my reins have been exhausted within me ! * If you should say , How shall we persecute him ? since the root of the matter has been found in me , * fear for yourselves because of the sword ; for wrath brings the punishment of the sword ; that you may know there is judgment .

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