Job 19:5-15

5 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6 know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
7 Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
11 He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
12 His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
13 "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
15 the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
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