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19:1 Then Job responded, 19:2 "How long will you torment me And crush me with words? 19:3 "These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me. 19:4 "Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me. 19:5 "If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me, 19:6 Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me. 19:7 "Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. 19:8 "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. 19:9 "He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head. 19:10 "He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree. 19:11 "He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy. 19:12 "His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent. 19:13 "He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. 19:14 "My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me. 19:15 "Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. 19:16 "I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth. 19:17 "My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers. 19:18 "Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me. 19:19 "All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. 19:20 "My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. 19:21 "Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me. 19:22 "Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh? 19:23 "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 19:24 "That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! 19:25 "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. 19:26 "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; 19:27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! 19:28 "If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?' 19:29 "Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment."