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Job 19

King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible

19:1
Then Job answered and said,
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19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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19:3
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me (note: Or, harden yourselves against me).
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19:4
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
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19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong (note: Or, violence), but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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19:15
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
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19:16
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
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19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body (note: Heb. my belly).
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19:18
Yea, young children (note: Or, the wicked) despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
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19:19
All my inward friends (note: Heb. the men of my secret) abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to (note: Or, as) my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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19:23
Oh that my words were now written (note: Heb. who will give? etc.)! oh that they were printed in a book!
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19:24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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19:25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
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19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God (note: Or, After I shall awake though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God):
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19:27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another (note: Heb. a stranger); though my reins be consumed within me (note: Heb. in my bosom).
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19:28
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me (note: Or, and what root of matter is found in me?)?
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19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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