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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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