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Then Job answered and said, (19:1)

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? (19:2)

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me (19:3)

And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself (19:4)

If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach: (19:5)

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net (19:6)

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment (19:7)

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths (19:8)

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head (19:9)

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree (19:10)

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies (19:11)

His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle (19:12)

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me (19:13)

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me (19:14)

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight (19:15)

I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I entreated him with my mouth (19:16)

My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body (19:17)

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me (19:18)

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me (19:19)

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth (19:20)

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me (19:21)

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? (19:22)

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! (19:23)

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! (19:24)

For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth: (19:25)

And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God: (19:26)

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me (19:27)

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? (19:28)

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment (19:29)

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