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\c 19
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\p
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\v 1 Then Job answered and said,
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\q
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\v 2 “How long will you make me suffer
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\q and break me into pieces with words?
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 These ten times you have reproached me;
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\q you are not ashamed that you have treated me harshly.
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\q
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\v 4 If it is indeed true that I have erred,
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\q my error remains my own concern.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 If indeed you will boast against me
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\q and convince everyone that I am disgraced,
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\q
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\v 6 then you should know that God has done wrong to me
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\q and has caught me in his net.
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\b
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\q
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\v 7 See, I call out to say that I have been done wrong, but I am not heard;
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\q I call out for help, but there is no justice.
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\q
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\v 8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
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\q and he has set darkness in my path.
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\q
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\v 9 He has stripped me of my glory,
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\q and he has taken the crown from my head.
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\q
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\v 10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone;
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\q he has plucked up my hopes like a tree.
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\q
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\v 11 He has also kindled his wrath against me;
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\q he regards me as one of his adversaries.
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\q
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\v 12 His troops come on together;
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\q they cast up siege mounds against me
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\q and encamp around my tent.
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\b
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\q
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\v 13 He has put my brothers far from me;
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\q my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me.
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\q
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\v 14 My kinsfolk have failed me;
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\q my close friends have forgotten me.
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\q
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\v 15 Those who once stayed as guests in my house and my female servants regard me as a stranger;
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\q I am an alien in their sight.
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\q
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\v 16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer
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\q although I entreat him with my mouth.
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\q
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\v 17 My breath is offensive to my wife;
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\q my pleas are loathsome to my own brothers and sisters.
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\q
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\v 18 Even young children despise me;
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\q if I rise to speak, they speak against me.
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\q
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\v 19 All my familiar friends abhor me;
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\q those whom I love have turned against me.
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\q
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\v 20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh;
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\q I survive only by the skin of my teeth.
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\q
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\v 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, my friends,
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\q for the hand of God has touched me.
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\q
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\v 22 Why do you persecute me as if you were God?
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\q Why are you not satisfied with consuming my flesh?
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\b
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\q
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\v 23 Oh, that my words were now written down!
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\q Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
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\q
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\v 24 Oh, that with an iron pen and lead
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\q they were engraven in the rock forever!
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\q
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\v 25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
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\q and that at last he will stand on the earth;
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\q
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\v 26 after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed,
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\q then in my flesh I will see God.
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\q
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\v 27 I will see him, I myself will see him on my side;
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\q my eyes will see him, and not as a stranger.
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\q My kidneys fail within me.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!
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\q The root of his troubles lies in him,’
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\q
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\v 29 then be afraid of the sword,
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\q because wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
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\q so that you may know there is a judgment.”
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