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Job - ch 19 v 1 - 20
- And Job answereth and saith: --
- Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
- These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --
- And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
- If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
- Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
- Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
- My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
- Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
- He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
- And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
- Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
- My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
- Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
- Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
- To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
- My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my `mother's' womb.
- Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
- Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
- To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
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