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Job - ch 19 v 1 - 20
- Then Job answered,
- "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
- You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
- If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
- If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
- know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
- He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
- He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
- He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
- His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
- "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
- Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
- I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
- My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
- Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
- All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
- My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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