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| Job 19:1 | Then Job answered , and said: | And Job made answer and said, |
| Job 19:2 | How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? |
| Job 19:3 | Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me. | Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong. |
| Job 19:4 | For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me. | And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself. |
| Job 19:5 | But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches. | If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me, |
| Job 19:6 | At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. | Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. |
| Job 19:7 | Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge. | Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. |
| Job 19:8 | He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness. | My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. |
| Job 19:9 | He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. | He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. |
| Job 19:10 | 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. | I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. |
| Job 19:11 | His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy. | His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters. |
| Job 19:12 | His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. | His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine. |
| Job 19:13 | He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. | He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. |
| Job 19:14 | My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me. | My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. |
| Job 19:15 | They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes. | I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. |
| Job 19:16 | I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth. | At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. |
| Job 19:17 | My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb. | My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. |
| Job 19:18 | Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me. | Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. |
| Job 19:19 | They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me. | All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me. |
| Job 19:20 | The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth. | My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth. |
| Job 19:21 | Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. | Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me. |
| Job 19:22 | Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh? | Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me? |
| Job 19:23 | Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book? | If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! |
| Job 19:24 | With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone. | And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! |
| Job 19:25 | For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. | But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust; |
| Job 19:26 | And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God. | And ... without my flesh I will see God; |
| Job 19:27 | Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom. | Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire. |
| Job 19:28 | Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him? | If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him: |
| Job 19:29 | Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment. | Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge. |
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