Chapter 19

  And Job answered and said,  

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  How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?  

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  These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.  

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  And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.  

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  If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,  

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  Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.  

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  Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.  

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  He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.  

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  He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.  

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  He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.  

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  And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.  

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  His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.  

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  He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.  

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  My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.  

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  The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.  

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  I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.  

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  My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.  

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  Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.  

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  All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.  

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  My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.  

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  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.  

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  Why do ye persecute me as ùGod, and are not satisfied with my flesh?  

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  Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!  

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  That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!  

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  And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;  

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  And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;  

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  Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: -- my reins are consumed within me.  

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  If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,  

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  Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.  

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