Job   

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19:1Then Job replied:
19:2"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
19:3Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.
19:4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
19:6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
19:7"Though I cry, 'I've been wronged!' I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
19:10He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
19:11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
19:12His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
19:13"He has alienated my brothers from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
19:14My kinsmen have gone away; my friends have forgotten me.
19:15My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger; they look upon me as an alien.
19:16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
19:17My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.
19:18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
19:19All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
19:20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
19:21"Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
19:23"Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
19:24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
19:25I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
19:26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
19:27I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
19:28"If you say, 'How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,'
19:29you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment."
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