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# Chapter 19
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1 Then Job spoke again:
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2 “How long will you torture me?
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How long will you try to crush me with your words?
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3 You have already insulted me ten times.
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You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
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4 Even if I have sinned,
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that is my concern, not yours.
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5 You think you’re better than I am,
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using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
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6 But it is God who has wronged me,
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capturing me in his net.
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7 “I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.
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I protest, but there is no justice.
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8 God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
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He has plunged my path into darkness.
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9 He has stripped me of my honor
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and removed the crown from my head.
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10 He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished.
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He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
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11 His fury burns against me;
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he counts me as an enemy.
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12 His troops advance.
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They build up roads to attack me.
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They camp all around my tent.
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13 “My relatives stay far away,
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and my friends have turned against me.
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14 My family is gone,
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and my close friends have forgotten me.
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15 My servants and maids consider me a stranger.
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I am like a foreigner to them.
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16 When I call my servant, he doesn’t come;
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I have to plead with him!
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17 My breath is repulsive to my wife.
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I am rejected by my own family.
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18 Even young children despise me.
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When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
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19 My close friends detest me.
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Those I loved have turned against me.
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20 I have been reduced to skin and bones
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and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
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21 “Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
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for the hand of God has struck me.
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22 Must you also persecute me, like God does?
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Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
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23 “Oh, that my words could be recorded.
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Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
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24 carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead,
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engraved forever in the rock.
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25 “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
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and he will stand upon the earth at last.
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26 And after my body has decayed,
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yet in my body I will see God!
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27 I will see him for myself.
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Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.
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I am overwhelmed at the thought!
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28 “How dare you go on persecuting me,
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saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
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29 You should fear punishment yourselves,
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for your attitude deserves punishment.
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Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.” |