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1 Then Job responded:
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Then Job answered:
2 How long will you harass me and crush me with words?
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"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times you've humiliated me; shamelessly you insult me.
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These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4 Have I really gone astray? If so, my error remains hidden inside me.
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And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.
5 If you look down on me and use my disgrace to criticize me,
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If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6 know then that God has wronged me and enclosed his net over me.
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know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me.
7 If I cry "Violence!" I'm not answered; I shout—but there is no justice.
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Even when I cry out, "Violence!' I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8 He walled up my path so I can't pass and put darkness on my trail,
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He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 stripped my honor from me, removed the crown from my head,
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He has stripped my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
10 tore me down completely so that I'll die, and uprooted my hope like a tree.
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He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, he has uprooted my hope like a tree.
11 His anger burns against me; he considers me his enemy.
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He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
12 His troops come as one and construct their siege ramp against me; they camp around my tent.
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His troops come on together; they have thrown up siegeworks against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 He has distanced my family from me; my acquaintances are also alienated from me. those who know me have forgotten me. I'm a foreigner in their sight.
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"He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My visitors have ceased;
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My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
15 My guests and female servants think me a stranger;
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the guests in my house have forgotten me; my serving girls count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
16 I call my servant, and he doesn't answer; I myself must beg him.
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I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must myself plead with him.
17 My breath stinks to my wife; I am odious to my children.
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My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even the young despise me; I get up, and they rail against me.
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Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me.
19 All my closest friends despise me; the ones I have loved turn against me.
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 My bones cling to my skin and flesh; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Pity me. Pity me. You're my friends. God's hand has truly struck me.
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Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
22 Why do you pursue me like God does, always hungry for my flesh?
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Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh, that my words were written down, inscribed on a scroll
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"O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book!
24 with an iron instrument and lead, forever engraved on stone.
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O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!
25 But I know that my redeemer is alive and afterward he'll rise upon the dust.
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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
26 After my skin has been torn apart this way— then from my flesh I'll see God,
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and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,
27 whom I'll see myself— my eyes see, and not a stranger's. I am utterly dejected.
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whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
28 You say, "How will we pursue him so that the root of the matter can be found in him?"
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If you say, "How we will persecute him!' and, "The root of the matter is found in him';
29 You ought to fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings punishment by the sword. You should know that there is judgment.
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be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment."
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