Chapter 19

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

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  If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:  

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

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  He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.  

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  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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  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.  

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  I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.  

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

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

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  Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!  

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  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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  And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:  

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  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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  Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.  

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