Then Job answered and said: 2 “How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? 3 These wten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? 4 And even if it be true that I ha erred, my error remains with mysel 5 If indeed you xmagnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, 6 know then that God has yput m in the wrong and closed his net about me. 7 Behold, I zcry out, ‘Violence!’ b I am not answered; I call for help, but there is n justice. 8 He has awalled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. 9 He has bstripped from me my glory and taken the ccrown from m head. 10 He breaks me down on every si and I dam gone, and my hope has he pulled u like a tree. 11 He has kindled his wrath against me and ecounts me as his adversary. 12 His ftroops come on together; they have gcast up their sieg ramp 1 against me and encamp around my tent. 13 “He has put my hbrothers far from me, and ithose who knew me are wholly estranged from me. 14 My relatives jhave failed me, my close kfriends have forgotten me. 15 The guests lin my house and m maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I call to my servant, but he give me no answer; I must plead with him with mouth for mercy. 17 My breath is strange to my mwife, and I am a stench to the children of nmy own mother. 18 Even young ochildren despise when I rise they talk against me. 19 All my pintimate friends abho me, and those whom I loved have turned against me 20 My qbones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the ski of my teeth. 21 Have mercy on me, have mercy o me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has rtouched me! 22 Why do you, like God, spursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? 23 “Oh that my words were writte Oh that they were tinscribed a book! 24 Oh that with an iron upen and lead they were engraved in the roc forever! 25 For I vknow that my wRedeem lives, and at the last he will stand upon the xearth. 2 26 And after my skin has been thu destroyed, yet in 3 my flesh I shall yse God, 27 whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, an not zanother. My heart afaints within me! 28 If you say, ‘How we will spursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter i found in him,’ 29 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of th sword, that you may know there is judgment.”
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