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, my 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 encompassed 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 my hope hath he removed like a tree.  

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  He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as one of his enemies.  

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  His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle.  

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

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  My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.  

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  They that dwell in my 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 entreated him with my mouth.  

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  My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.  

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  Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.  

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  All my intimate 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 have 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 in lead, in the rock for ever!  

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  For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he will 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 my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.  

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  But ye would 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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