191Then Job answered,+2“How long will you torment me,and crush me with words?+3You have reproached me ten times.You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.+4If it is true that I have erred,my error remains with myself.+5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,and plead against me my reproach;+6know now that God has subverted me,and has surrounded me with his net.+7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.I cry for help, but there is no justice.+8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,and has set darkness in my paths.+9He has stripped me of my glory,and taken the crown from my head.+10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.My hope he has plucked up like a tree.+11He has also kindled his wrath against me.He counts me among his adversaries.+12His troops come on together,build a siege ramp against me,and encamp around my tent.+13“He has put my brothers far from me.My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.+14My relatives have gone away.My familiar friends have forgotten me.+15Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.I am an alien in their sight.+16I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.I beg him with my mouth.+17My breath is offensive to my wife.I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.+18Even young children despise me.If I arise, they speak against me.+19All my familiar friends abhor me.They whom I loved have turned against me.+20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.+21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends;for the hand of God has touched me.+22Why do you persecute me as God,and are not satisfied with my flesh?+23“Oh that my words were now written!Oh that they were inscribed in a book!+24That with an iron pen and leadthey were engraved in the rock forever!+25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.In the end, he will stand upon the earth.+26After my skin is destroyed,then in my flesh shall I see God,+27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side.My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger.“My heart is consumed within me.+28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’because the root of the matter is found in me,+29be afraid of the sword,for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,that you may know there is a judgment.”+
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