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- Bvt Iob answered, and said,
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- Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
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- Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
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- And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
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- But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
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- Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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- Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
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- Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
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- Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
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- He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
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- And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
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- His armies came together, & made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
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- He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
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- My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
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- They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
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- I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
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- My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
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- The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
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- All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.
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- My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
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- Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
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- Why do ye persecute me, as God?
& are not satisfied with my flesh?
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- Oh that my wordes were nowe written!
oh that they were written euen in a booke,
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- And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
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- For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
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- And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
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- Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
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- But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted?
And there was a deepe matter in me.
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- Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.
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