Job 19:1-6

1 Job answered:
2 "How long are you going to keep battering away at me, pounding me with these harangues?
3 Time after time after time you jump all over me. Do you have no conscience, abusing me like this?
4 Even if I have, somehow or other, gotten off the track, what business is that of yours?
5 Why do you insist on putting me down, using my troubles as a stick to beat me?
6 Tell it to God - he's the one behind all this, he's the one who dragged me into this mess.
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