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19:1  Then Job responded:
19:2  How long will you torment my soul? How long will you crush me with words?
19:3  Ten times now you have insulted me, but you are not ashamed that you are treating me so badly.
19:4  But even if I actually were in the wrong, my error would remain my own concern.
19:5  To be sure, when you lord it over me, and you hurl my disgrace against me,
19:6  you should know that God has denied me justice, and he has trapped me in his net.
19:7  Listen to me! I cry out, “Injustice,” but I get no answer. I call for help, but there is no justice.
19:8  He has blocked my way, so I cannot get by. He has brought darkness on my paths.
19:9  He has stripped me of my honor, and he has taken the crown off my head.
19:10  He tears me down on every side, until I am gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.
19:11  His anger burns against me, and he regards me as his enemy.
19:12  Together his troops advance against me. They build a siege ramp against me. They camp all around my tent.
19:13  He has distanced my brothers far from me, and those who know me treat me like a stranger.
19:14  My relatives stay away. Even my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  Even my houseguests and my female servants treat me like a stranger. They look upon me as a foreigner.
19:16  I summon my servant, but he does not answer, even though I beg him to be gracious to me.
19:17  My breath keeps my wife away from me, and I am repulsive to my mother’s children.
19:18  Even young boys reject me. When I get up, they speak against me.
19:19  My closest confidants shun me, and those I love have turned against me.
19:20  I am nothing but skin and bones. I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Have mercy on me. Have mercy on me, you friends of mine, because the hand of God has struck me.
19:22  Why do you pursue me the way God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
19:23  Oh how I wish that my words were written down. Oh how I wish that they were inscribed in bronze,
19:24  that they would be engraved in rock forever with an iron tool and letters filled with lead.
19:25  As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the end of time he will stand over the dust.
19:26  Then, even after my skin has been destroyed, nevertheless, in my own flesh I will see God.
19:27  I myself will see him. My own eyes will see him, and not as a stranger. My emotions are in turmoil within me.
19:28  If you say, “What can we do to pursue him?” and “He is the root of his own problems,”
19:29  then you should fear the edge of the sword for yourselves! For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you will know that there is judgment.