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And Job answered and said, Job 19:1
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How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? Job 19:2
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And this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. Job 19:3
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And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me. Job 19:4
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If indeed you magnify yourself against me, and plead against me my misery, Job 19:5
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know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed on me. Job 19:6
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Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered. I cry aloud, but there is no justice. Job 19:7
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He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths. Job 19:8
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He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head. Job 19:9
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He has broken me on every side, and I am gone, and He has uprooted my hope like a tree. Job 19:10
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He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy. Job 19:11
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His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and camp around my tent. Job 19:12
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He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me. Job 19:13
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My people have fallen away, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. Job 19:14
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Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. Job 19:15
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I called my servant, and he gave no answer; I must beg him with my mouth. Job 19:16
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My breath is hated by my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my mother's womb. Job 19:17
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Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. Job 19:18
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All the men of my counsel detest me, even this one I loved has turned against me. Job 19:19
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My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. Job 19:20
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Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me. Job 19:21
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Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh? Job 19:22
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Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were engraved in a book! Job 19:23
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Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! Job 19:24
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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall rise on the earth at the last; Job 19:25
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and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God, Job 19:26
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whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger's; though my heart be exhausted in my bosom. Job 19:27
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For you ought to say, Why do we persecute him, since the root of the matter is found in me? Job 19:28
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Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment. Job 19:29