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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] | 3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!' |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment." |
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