| Chapter 19
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| 1 | Then Job
answered and said, |
| 2 | How
long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? |
| 3 | These ten times have ye reproached me:
ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. |
| 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. |
| 7 | Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am
not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. |
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8 | He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he
hath set darkness in my paths. |
| 9
| He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. |
| 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. |
| 12 | His troops come together, and raise up
their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. |
| 13 | He hath put my brethren far from me,
and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. |
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14 | My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends
have forgotten me. |
| 15 |
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. |
| 18 | Yea, young
children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. |
| 19 | All my inward friends abhorred me: and
they whom I loved are turned against me. |
| 20 | 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! |
| 25
| For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth: |
| 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. |
| 28
| But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter
is found in me? |
| 29 | Be ye
afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye
may know there is a judgment. |
