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| [1]But Job answered, and said, |
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| [2]How long will ye vex my soul, and torment me with words? |
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| [3]Ye have now ten times reproached me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward me. |
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| [4]And though I had indeed erred, mine error remaineth with me. |
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| [5]But indeed if ye will advance yourselves against me, and rebuke me for my reproach, |
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| [6]Know now, that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. |
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| [7]Behold, I cry out of violence, but I have none answer: I cry, but there is no judgment. |
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| [8]He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. |
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| [9]He hath spoiled me of mine honor, and taken the crown away from mine head. |
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| [10]He hath destroyed me on every side and I am gone: and he hath removed mine hope like a tree. |
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| [11]And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth me as one of his enemies. |
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| [12]His armies came together, and made their way upon me, and camped about my tabernacle. |
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| [13]He hath removed my brethren far from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers unto me. |
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| [14]My neighbors have forsaken me, and my familiars have forgotten me. |
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| [15]They that dwell in mine house, and my maids took me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight. |
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| [16]I called my servant, but he would not answer, though I prayed him with my mouth. |
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| [17]My breath was strange unto my wife, though I prayed her for the children's sake of mine own body. |
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| [18]The wicked also despised me, and when I rose, they spake against me. |
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| [19]All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved, are turned against me. |
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| [20]My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
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| [21]Have pity upon me: have pity upon me, (O ye my friends) for the hand of God hath touched me. |
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| [22]Why do ye persecute me, as God? And are not satisfied with my flesh? |
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| [23]Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were written even in a book, |
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| [24]And graven with an iron pen in lead, or in stone forever! |
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| [25]For I am sure, that my redeemer liveth, and he shall stand the last on the earth. |
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| [26]And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my flesh. |
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| [27]Whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes shall behold, and none other for me, though my reins are consumed within me. |
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| [28]But ye said, Why is he persecuted? And there was a deep matter in me. |
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| [29]Be ye afraid of the sword: for the sword will be avenged of wickedness, that ye may know that there is a judgment. |
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