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Chapter 19 |
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1 | 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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4 | And be it indeed that I have erred,
mine error remaineth with myself. |
| 5 | If indeed ye will magnify
yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: |
| 6 | 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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9 | He hath stripped me of my glory, and
taken the crown from my head. |
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10 | He hath destroyed me on every side,
and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. |
| 11 | 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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13 | He hath put 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. |
| 16 | I called my servant, and he gave me no
answer; I intreated him with my mouth. |
| 17 | My breath is strange to my
wife, though I intreated for the children's 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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21 | Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,
O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. |
| 22 | Why do ye
persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 23 | Oh that
my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! |
| 24 | 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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26 | And though after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God: |
| 27 | 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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29 | Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath
bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a
judgment. |
