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19:1  Then Job responded,
19:2  “How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
19:3  These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
19:4  Even if I have truly done wrong, My error stays with me.
19:5  If indeed you exalt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
19:6  Know then that God has wronged me And has surrounded me with His net.
19:7  “Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice.
19:8  He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
19:9  He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
19:10  He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
19:11  He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.
19:12  His troops come together And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
19:13  “He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances have completely turned away from me.
19:14  My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
19:15  Those who live in my house and my servant women 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 his favor with my mouth.
19:17  My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
19:18  Even young children despise me; I stand up and they speak against me.
19:19  All my associates loathe me, And those I love have turned against me.
19:20  My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
19:21  Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine, For the hand of God has struck me.
19:22  Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23  “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were recorded in a book!
19:24  That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
19:25  Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last, He will take His stand on the earth.
19:26  Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God,
19:27  Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, And whom my eyes will see, and not another. My heart faints within me!
19:28  If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
19:29  Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”