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19:1  Then Job responded:
19:2  How long will you harass me and crush me with words?
19:3  These ten times you’ve humiliated me; shamelessly you insult me.
19:4  Have I really gone astray? If so, my error remains hidden inside me.
19:5  If you look down on me and use my disgrace to criticize me,
19:6  know then that God has wronged me and enclosed his net over me.
19:7  If I cry “Violence!” I’m not answered; I shout—but there is no justice.
19:8  He walled up my path so I can’t pass and put darkness on my trail,
19:9  stripped my honor from me, removed the crown from my head,
19:10  tore me down completely so that I’ll die, and uprooted my hope like a tree.
19:11  His anger burns against me; he considers me his enemy.
19:12  His troops come as one and construct their siege ramp against me; they camp around my tent.
19:13  He has distanced my family from me; my acquaintances are also alienated from me.
19:14  My visitors have ceased; those who know me have forgotten me.
19:15  My guests and female servants think me a stranger; I’m a foreigner in their sight.
19:16  I call my servant, and he doesn’t answer; I myself must beg him.
19:17  My breath stinks to my wife; I am odious to my children.
19:18  Even the young despise me; I get up, and they rail against me.
19:19  All my closest friends despise me; the ones I have loved turn against me.
19:20  My bones cling to my skin and flesh; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Pity me. Pity me. You’re my friends. God’s hand has truly struck me.
19:22  Why do you pursue me like God does, always hungry for my flesh?
19:23  Oh, that my words were written down, inscribed on a scroll
19:24  with an iron instrument and lead, forever engraved on stone.
19:25  But I know that my redeemer is alive and afterward he’ll rise upon the dust.
19:26  After my skin has been torn apart this way— then from my flesh I’ll see God,
19:27  whom I’ll see myself— my eyes see, and not a stranger’s. I am utterly dejected.
19:28  You say, “How will we pursue him so that the root of the matter can be found in him?”
19:29  You ought to fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings punishment by the sword. You should know that there is judgment.