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19:1  Then Job answered and said,
19:2  “How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words?
19:3  “These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].
19:4  “And if it were true that I have erred, My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].
19:5  “If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,
19:6  Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me And has closed His net around me.
19:7  “Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
19:8  “He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has set darkness upon my paths.
19:9  “He has stripped me of my honor And removed the crown from my head.
19:10  “He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
19:11  “He has also kindled His wrath [like a fire] against me And He considers and counts me as one of His adversaries.
19:12  “His troops come together And build up their way and siege works against me And camp around my tent.
19:13  “He has put my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
19:14  “My relatives have failed [me], And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
19:15  “Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
19:16  “I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with words.
19:17  “My breath is repulsive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
19:18  “Even young children despise me; When I get up, they speak against me.
19:19  “All the men of my council hate me; Those I love have turned against me.
19:20  “My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  “Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has touched me.
19:22  “Why do you persecute me as God does? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?
19:23  “Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!
19:24  “That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
19:25  “For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.
19:26  “Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death], Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,
19:27  Whom I, even I, will see for myself, And my eyes will see Him and not another! My heart faints within me.
19:28  “If you say, ‘How shall we [continue to] persecute him?’ And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?’
19:29  “Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance] for yourselves, For wrathful are the punishments of that sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”