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| | Job 19:1 | Then Job spoke again:
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| | Job 19:2 | "How long will you torture me? How long will you try to break me with your words?
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| | Job 19:3 | Ten times now you have meant to insult me. You should be ashamed of dealing with me so harshly.
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| | Job 19:4 | And even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.
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| | Job 19:5 | You are trying to overcome me, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin,
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| | Job 19:6 | but it is God who has wronged me. I cannot defend myself, for I am like a city under siege.
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| | Job 19:7 | "I cry out for help, but no one hears me. I protest, but there is no justice.
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| | Job 19:8 | God has blocked my way and plunged my path into darkness.
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| | Job 19:9 | He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
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| | Job 19:10 | He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has destroyed my hope.
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| | Job 19:11 | His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.
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| | Job 19:12 | His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.
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| | Job 19:13 | "My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.
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| | Job 19:14 | My neighbors and my close friends are all gone.
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| | Job 19:15 | The members of my household have forgotten me. The servant girls consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
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| | Job 19:16 | I call my servant, but he doesn't come; I even plead with him!
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| | Job 19:17 | My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am loathsome to my own family.
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| | Job 19:18 | Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
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| | Job 19:19 | My close friends abhor me. Those I loved have turned against me.
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| | Job 19:20 | I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
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| | Job 19:21 | "Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.
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| | Job 19:22 | Why must you persecute me as God does? Why aren't you satisfied with my anguish?
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| | Job 19:23 | "Oh, that my words could be written. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
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| | Job 19:24 | carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.
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| | Job 19:25 | "But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand upon the earth at last.
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| | Job 19:26 | And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!
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| | Job 19:27 | I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!
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| | Job 19:28 | "How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, 'It's his own fault'?
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| | Job 19:29 | I warn you, you yourselves are in danger of punishment for your attitude. Then you will know that there is judgment."
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