Job 19
NASB
Job 19:2
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"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
Job 19:3
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"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
Job 19:4
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"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.
Job 19:5
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"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
Job 19:6
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Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
Job 19:7
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"Behold, I cry, `Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:8
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"He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
Job 19:9
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"He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
Job 19:10
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"He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
Job 19:11
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"He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.
Job 19:12
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"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
Job 19:13
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"He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
Job 19:14
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"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15
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"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
Job 19:16
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"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.
Job 19:17
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"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
Job 19:18
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"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.
Job 19:19
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"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.
Job 19:20
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"My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped {only} by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21
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"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.
Job 19:22
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"Why do you persecute me as God {does,} And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:23
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"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Job 19:24
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"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
Job 19:25
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"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
Job 19:26
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"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
Job 19:27
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Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
Job 19:28
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"If you say, `How shall we persecute him?' And `What pretext for a case against him can we find?'
Job 19:29
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"{Then} be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath {brings} the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."
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