Job 19

1Then Job answered and said:

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2'How long will you weary my soul And take me down with words?

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3Only know how the Lord has dealt with me thus. You speak against me, and while shaming me, You press hard on me.

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4Yes indeed, I have truly erred; my error lodges with me. When I speak words which I should not have spoken, My words go astray and are unseasonable.

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5Alas! You exalt yourselves against me And attack me with disgrace.

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6Know therefore that the Lord has troubled me And raised His stronghold against me.

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7Behold, I laugh at disgrace and I will not speak. Nor I will cry out, for judgment is nowhere to be found.

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8I am walled in round about and cannot cross over, For He has set darkness before my face.

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9He stripped me of my glory And took the crown from my head.

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10He has torn me apart on every side, and I am gone. He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

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11He handled me vehemently in wrath And has counted me like an enemy.

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12His raiders came against me with one accord. They encircled my paths and lay in wait.

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13'My brothers stood far from me And recognized strangers rather than me. So my friends became unmerciful.

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14My relatives acted as though they did not know me, And my close friends have forgotten me.

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15As for my neighbors and the maidservants of my house, I was a stranger before them.

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16I called my servant, but he gave no answer, Though I begged him with my mouth.

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17I also entreated my wife, And summoned the children of my concubines and flattered them.

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18But they rejected me forever. When I arise, they speak against me.

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19Those who know me detest me, And those whom I truly love turned against me.

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20The muscles of my body have decayed under my skin, And my bones are held in my teeth.

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21'Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O friends, For the hand of the Lord has touched me.

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22Why do you persecute me as the Lord does, And are not satisfied because of my flesh?

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23'For who may commit my words to writing, To put them in a book forever,

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24With an iron pen and lead, Or to engrave them in rocks?

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25For I know He is everlasting, He who is about to set me free on the earth

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26And to raise up my skin that endures these things; For these have been accomplished for me by the Lord;

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27Which I myself am conscious of, And my eyes have beheld, and not those of another. All has been accomplished for me in my bosom.

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28If you shall say, 'What shall we say before him? Then we will find in him the root of the matter.'

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29Indeed, be afraid to cover up your evil, For wrath will come upon lawless men; Then they will know where their substance is.'

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