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| Job 19:1 | Then Job answered and said, | And Job made answer and said, |
| Job 19:2 | How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? | How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? |
| Job 19:3 | These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. | Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong. |
| Job 19:4 | And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. | And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself. |
| Job 19:5 | If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: | If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me, |
| Job 19:6 | Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. | Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. |
| Job 19:7 | Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. | 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 fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. | 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 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 gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. | I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. |
| Job 19:11 | He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. | His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters. |
| Job 19:12 | His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. | 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 mine acquaintance are verily estranged 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 kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends 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 dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. | 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 intreated him with my mouth. | At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. |
| Job 19:17 | My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. | My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body. |
| Job 19:18 | Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. | Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me. |
| Job 19:19 | All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are 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 | My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of 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 upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God 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 ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? | Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me? |
| Job 19:23 | Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! | If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! |
| Job 19:24 | That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! | 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 that he shall stand at the latter day upon 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 though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: | And ... without my flesh I will see God; |
| Job 19:27 | Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. | Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire. |
| Job 19:28 | But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? | If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him: |
| Job 19:29 | Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a 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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