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