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- And Job answered and said,
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- How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
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- These ten times have ye reproached me;
ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
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- And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
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- If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
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- Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
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- Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard;
I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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- He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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- He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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- He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone;
and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
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- And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
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- His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
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- He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
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- My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
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- The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger;
I am an alien in their sight.
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- I called my servant, and he answered not;
I entreated him with my mouth.
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- My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
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- Even young children despise me;
I rise up, and they speak against me.
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- All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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- My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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- Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends;
for the hand of +God hath touched me.
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- Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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- Oh would that my words were written!
oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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- That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
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- And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
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- And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
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- Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: — my reins are consumed within me.
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- If ye say, How shall we persecute him?
when the root of the matter is found in me,
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- Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword!
for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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