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Job - ch 19 v 1 - 20
- And Job made answer and said,
- How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
- Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
- And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.
- If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
- Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
- Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
- My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
- He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
- I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
- His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
- His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
- He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
- My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
- I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.
- At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
- My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
- Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
- All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
- My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
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