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19:1  Why do you keep tormenting me with words?
19:2  Why do you keep tormenting me with words?
19:3  Time after time you insult me and show no shame for the way you abuse me.
19:4  Even if I have done wrong, how does that hurt you?
19:5  You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.
19:6  Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me.
19:7  I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice.
19:8  God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness.
19:9  He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation.
19:10  He batters me from every side. He uproots my hope and leaves me to wither and die.
19:11  God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy.
19:12  He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent.
19:13  God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;
19:14  my relatives and friends are gone.
19:15  Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.
19:16  When I call a servant, he doesn't answer— even when I beg him to help me.
19:17  My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.
19:18  Children despise me and laugh when they see me.
19:19  My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.
19:20  My skin hangs loose on my bones; I have barely escaped with my life.
19:21  You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.
19:22  Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?
19:23  How I wish that someone would remember my words and record them in a book!
19:24  Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.
19:25  But I know there is someone in heaven who will come at last to my defense.
19:26  Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.
19:27  I will see him with my own eyes, and he will not be a stranger. My courage failed because you said,
19:28  “How can we torment him?” You looked for some excuse to attack me.
19:29  But now, be afraid of the sword— the sword that brings God's wrath on sin, so that you will know there is one who judges.