Job 19

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¹ Then Job answered and said,	¹ Then Job answered:
² How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?	² "How long will you torment me, 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.	³ These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.	⁴ And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
⁵ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:	⁵ If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
⁶ Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.	⁶ know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.	⁷ Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
⁸ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.	⁸ He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.	⁹ He has stripped from me 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.	¹⁰ He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
¹¹ He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.	¹¹ He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
¹² His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.	¹² His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
¹³ He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.	¹³ "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.	¹⁴ My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
¹⁵ They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.	¹⁵ the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
¹⁶ I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.	¹⁶ I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.	¹⁷ I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.
¹⁸ Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.	¹⁸ Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
¹⁹ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.	¹⁹ All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
²⁰ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.	²⁰ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.	²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
²² Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?	²² Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
²³ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!	²³ "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
²⁴ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!	²⁴ Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven 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:	²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;
²⁶ And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:	²⁶ and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,
²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.	²⁷ whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
²⁸ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?	²⁸ If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him';
²⁹ Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.	²⁹ 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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