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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me! |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’ |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.” |
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