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1 Then Job answered, and said:
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Then Job answered:
2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
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These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
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And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.
5 But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
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If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
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know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me.
7 Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
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Even when I cry out, "Violence!' I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
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He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
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He has stripped my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
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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 wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
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He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
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His troops come on together; they have thrown up siegeworks against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
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"He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
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My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
15 They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.
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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 called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
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I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must myself plead with him.
17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
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My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.
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Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me.
19 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.
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All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about 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 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched 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 persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
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Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
23 Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
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"O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book!
24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone?
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O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!
25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.
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and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,
27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
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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 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
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If you say, "How we will persecute him!' and, "The root of the matter is found in him';
29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a 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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