Then Job
answered and said,
02 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in
pieces with words?
03 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are
not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to
me.
04 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself.
05 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against
me, and plead against me my reproach:
06 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath
compassed me with his net.
07 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not
heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
08 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,
and he hath set darkness in my paths.
09 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the
crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am
gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and
he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their
way against me, and encamp round about my
tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine
acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar
friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids,
count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their
sight.
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16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer;
I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I
intreated for the children's sake of mine own
body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and
they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they
whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,
and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my
friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not
satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that
they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and
lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that
he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this
body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes
shall behold, and not another; though my reins be
consumed within me.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him,
seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth
the punishments of the sword, that ye may know
there is a judgment.
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