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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered and said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’ |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” |
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