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Job 19

Job Feels Insulted

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Then Job  1responded,

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"How long will you torment  1me And crush me with words?

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"These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.

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"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.

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"If indeed you  avaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

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Know then that  aGod has wronged me And has closed  bHis net around me.

Everything Is against Him

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"Behold,  aI cry, `Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.

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"He has  awalled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put  bdarkness on my paths.

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"He has  astripped my honor from me And removed the  bcrown from my head.

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"He  abreaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my  bhope  clike a tree.

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"He has also  akindled His anger against me And  bconsidered me as His enemy.

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"His  atroops come together, And  bbuild up their  1way against me And camp around my tent.

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"He has  aremoved my brothers far from me, And my  bacquaintances are completely estranged from me.

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"My relatives have failed, And my  aintimate friends have forgotten me.

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"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.

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"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.

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"My breath is  1offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

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"Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.

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"All  1my  aassociates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.

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"My  abone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

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"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the  ahand of God has struck me.

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"Why do you  apersecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

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"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were  ainscribed in a book!

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"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

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"As for me, I know that  amy  1Redeemer lives, And  2at the last He will take His stand on the  3earth.

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"Even after my skin  1is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall  asee God;

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Whom I  1myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My  2heart  afaints  3within me!

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"If you say, `How shall we  apersecute him?' And ` 1What pretext for a case against him can we find?'

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"Then be afraid of  athe sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know  bthere is judgment."



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