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Then Job answered and said: |
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"How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words? |
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These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed [that] you have wronged me. |
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And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me. |
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If indeed you exalt [yourselves] against me, And plead my disgrace against me, |
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Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net. |
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"If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, [there is] no justice. |
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He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths. |
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He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown [from] my head. |
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10
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He breaks me down on every side, And I am gone; My hope He has uprooted like a tree. |
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He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as [one of] His enemies. |
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His troops come together And build up their road against me; They encamp all around my tent. |
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" He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. |
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My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me. |
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Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. |
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I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth. |
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My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am repulsive to the children of my own body. |
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Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. |
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All my close friends abhor me, And those whom I love have turned against me. |
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My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
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" Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me! |
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Why do you persecute me as God [does,] And are not satisfied with my flesh? |
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" Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! |
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That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever! |
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For I know [that] my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; |
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And after my skin is destroyed, this [I know,] That in my flesh I shall see God, |
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Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. [How] my heart yearns within me! |
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If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?' -- Since the root of the matter is found in me, |
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Be afraid of the sword for yourselves; For wrath [brings] the punishment of the sword, That you may know [there is] a judgment." |
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