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| | Job 19:1 | Then Job answered and said,
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| | Job 19:2 | How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
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| | Job 19:3 | These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
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| | Job 19:4 | And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
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| | Job 19:5 | If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
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| | Job 19:6 | Know now that God hath subverted me `in my cause', And hath compassed me with his net.
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| | Job 19:7 | Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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| | Job 19:8 | He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
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| | Job 19:9 | He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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| | Job 19:10 | He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
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| | Job 19:11 | He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as `one of' his adversaries.
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| | Job 19:12 | His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
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| | Job 19:13 | He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
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| | Job 19:14 | My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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| | Job 19:15 | They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
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| | Job 19:16 | I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, `Though' I entreat him with my mouth.
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| | Job 19:17 | My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
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| | Job 19:18 | Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
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| | Job 19:19 | All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
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| | Job 19:20 | My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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| | Job 19:21 | Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
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| | Job 19:22 | Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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| | Job 19:23 | Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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| | Job 19:24 | That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
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| | Job 19:25 | But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
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| | Job 19:26 | And after my skin, `even' this `body', is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
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| | Job 19:27 | Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
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| | Job 19:28 | If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
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| | Job 19:29 | Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath `bringeth' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.
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