Jb 19:1Then Job answered and said,
Jb 19:2 How long will you grieve my soul / And crush me with your words?
Jb 19:3 These ten times you have reproached me; / You are not ashamed to deal wrongly with me.
Jb 19:4 And be it that I have erred, / My error remains with me.
Jb 19:5 If you indeed magnify yourselves against me / And use my reproach in argument against me,
Jb 19:6 Know then that God has subverted my cause / And compassed me about with His net.
Jb 19:7 Indeed, I cry out, Violence! and I am not answered; / I call for help, and there is no justice.
Jb 19:8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; / And He has put darkness upon my paths.
Jb 19:9 He has stripped my glory from me / And taken away the crown on my head.
Jb 19:10 He has broken me all around, and I am gone; / And He has plucked up my hope like a tree.
Jb 19:11 He has also kindled His anger against me, / And in Himself He considers me as His adversary.
Jb 19:12 His troops come together / And cast up their highway against me / And encamp all around my tent.
Jb 19:13 He has removed my brothers far from me, / And those who know me are wholly estranged from me.
Jb 19:14 My relatives have failed me, / And my acquaintances have forgotten me.
Jb 19:15 Those who sojourn in my house and my maids consider me as a stranger; / I am a foreigner in their eyes.
Jb 19:16 To my servant I call out, but he does not answer; / I entreat him with my mouth.
Jb 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife; / And my supplications, to the children of my mother’s womb.
Jb 19:18 Even little children despise me: / I arise and they speak against me.
Jb 19:19 All the men whom I take counsel with abhor me, / And those whom I love have turned against me.
Jb 19:20 My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, / And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Jb 19:21 Pity me, pity me, O my friends; / For the hand of God has touched me.
Jb 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God does / And are not satisfied with eating my flesh?
Jb 19:23 Oh, that my words were now written! / Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
Jb 19:24 That with an iron pen and with lead / They were engraved in rock forever!
Jb 19:25 But I know that my Redeemer lives, / And at the last He will stand upon the earth;
Jb 19:26 And after this body of mine is destroyed, / Outside my flesh I will look on God,
Jb 19:27 Whom I, even I, will look on for myself, / And my eyes will see; I, and no other. / My inward parts that long for God are consumed within me.
Jb 19:28 If you say, How will we persecute him? / For the root of the matter is found in him;
Jb 19:29 Be fearful of the sword, / For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, / That you may know that there is a judgment.
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