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-Job's Reply to Bildad
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 # Chapter 19
-1. Then Job answered:
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-2. How long will you torment me
+1 Then Job answered:
+2 How long will you torment me
 and crush me with words?
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-3. You have humiliated me ten times now,
+3 You have humiliated me ten times now,
 and you mistreat me without shame.
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-4. Even if it is true that I have sinned,
+4 Even if it is true that I have sinned,
 my mistake concerns only me.
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-5. If you really want to appear superior to me
+5 If you really want to appear superior to me
 and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
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-6. then understand that it is God who has wronged me
+6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me
 and caught me in his net.
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-7. I cry out, "Violence!" but get no response;
+7 I cry out, “Violence!” but get no response;
 I call for help, but there is no justice.
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-8. He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
+8 He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
 he has veiled my paths with darkness.
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-9. He has stripped me of my honor
+9 He has stripped me of my honor
 and removed the crown from my head.
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-10. He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.
+10 He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.
 He uproots my hope like a tree.
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-11. His anger burns against me,
+11 His anger burns against me,
 and he regards me as one of his enemies.
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-12. His troops advance together;
+12 His troops advance together;
 they construct a ramp against me
 and camp around my tent.
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-13. He has removed my brothers from me;
+13 He has removed my brothers from me;
 my acquaintances have abandoned me.
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-14. My relatives stop coming by,
+14 My relatives stop coming by,
 and my close friends have forgotten me.
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-15. My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;
+15 My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;
 I am a foreigner in their sight.
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-16. I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
+16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
 even if I beg him with my own mouth.
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-17. My breath is offensive to my wife,
+17 My breath is offensive to my wife,
 and my own family finds me repulsive.
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-18. Even young boys scorn me.
+18 Even young boys scorn me.
 When I stand up, they mock me.
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-19. All of my best friends despise me,
+19 All of my best friends despise me,
 and those I love have turned against me.
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-20. My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
+20 My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
 I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
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-21. Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
-for God's hand has struck me.
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-22. Why do you persecute me as God does?
+21 Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
+for God’s hand has struck me.
+22 Why do you persecute me as God does?
 Will you never get enough of my flesh?
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-23. I wish that my words were written down,
+23 I wish that my words were written down,
 that they were recorded on a scroll
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-24. or were inscribed in stone forever
+24 or were inscribed in stone forever
 by an iron stylus and lead!
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-25. But I know that my Redeemer lives,
+25 But I know that my Redeemer lives,
 and at the end he will stand on the dust.
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-26. Even after my skin has been destroyed,
+26 Even after my skin has been destroyed,
 yet I will see God in my flesh.
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-27. I will see him myself;
+27 I will see him myself;
 my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger.
 My heart longs within me.
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-28. If you say, "How will we pursue him,
-since the root of the problem lies with him?"
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-29. then be afraid of the sword,
+28 If you say, “How will we pursue him,
+since the root of the problem lies with him?”
+29 then be afraid of the sword,
 because wrath brings punishment by the sword,
-so that you may know there is a judgment.
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+so that you may know there is a judgment.