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# Job 19 (New King James Version)
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Job Trusts in His Redeemer
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##### Chapter 19
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###### 1 Then Job answered and said:
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###### 2 "How long will you torment my soul,
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And break me in pieces with words?
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###### 3 These ten times you have reproached me;
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You are not ashamed _that_ you have wronged me.
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###### 4 And if indeed I have erred,
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My error remains with me.
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###### 5 If indeed you exalt _yourselves_ against me,
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And plead my disgrace against me,
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###### 6 Know then that God has wronged me,
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And has surrounded me with His net.
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###### 7 "If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard.
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If I cry aloud, _there is_ no justice.
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###### 8 He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass;
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And He has set darkness in my paths.
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###### 9 He has stripped me of my glory,
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And taken the crown _from_ my head.
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###### 10 He breaks me down on every side,
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And I am gone;
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My hope He has uprooted like a tree.
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###### 11 He has also kindled His wrath against me,
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And He counts me as _one of_ His enemies.
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###### 12 His troops come together
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And build up their road against me;
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They encamp all around my tent.
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###### 13 "He has removed my brothers far from me,
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And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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###### 14 My relatives have failed,
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And my close friends have forgotten me.
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###### 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,
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Count me as a stranger;
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I am an alien in their sight.
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###### 16 I call my servant, but he gives no answer;
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I beg him with my mouth.
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###### 17 My breath is offensive to my wife,
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And I am repulsive to the children of my own body.
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###### 18 Even young children despise me;
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I arise, and they speak against me.
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###### 19 All my close friends abhor me,
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And those whom I love have turned against me.
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###### 20 My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
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And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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###### 21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
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For the hand of God has struck me!
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###### 22 Why do you persecute me as God _does,_
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And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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###### 23 "Oh, that my words were written!
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Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
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###### 24 That they were engraved on a rock
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With an iron pen and lead, forever!
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###### 25 For I know _that_ my Redeemer lives,
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And He shall stand at last on the earth;
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###### 26 And after my skin is destroyed, this _I know,_
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That in my flesh I shall see God,
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###### 27 Whom I shall see for myself,
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And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
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_How_ my heart yearns within me!
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###### 28 If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?'--
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Since the root of the matter is found in me,
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###### 29 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;
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For wrath _brings_ the punishment of the sword,
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That you may know _there is_ a judgment."
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