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Job 19

¹Then Job answered,

²"How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?

³You have reproached me ten times. You aren`t ashamed that you attack me.

⁴If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.

⁵If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

⁶Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

⁷"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

⁸He has walled up my way so that I can`t pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

⁹He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

¹¹He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

¹²His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.

¹³"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

¹⁴My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.

¹⁷My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

¹⁸Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

¹⁹All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

²⁰My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

²¹"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

²²Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

²⁴That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

²⁵But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

²⁶After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,

²⁷Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

²⁸If you say, `How we will persecute him!` Because the root of the matter is found in me,

²⁹Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."

Job 19 (WEB)

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Job

Chapter 19

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