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Then Job answered, and said,
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How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
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And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
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know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
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He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.
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He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.
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His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
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He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
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I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth.
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My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.
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Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
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All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.
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My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,
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that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!
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But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
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And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
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whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
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If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,
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be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.