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| 1 Then Job answered and said, |
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| 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? |
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| 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. |
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| 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. |
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| 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: |
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| 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. |
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| 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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| 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. |
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| 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. |
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| 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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| 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. |
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| 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. |
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| 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. |
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| 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
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| 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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| 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. |
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| 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. |
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| 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. |
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| 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. |
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| 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
Skin of my teeth – Teeth--membrane or skin. R5994:4
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| 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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| 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
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| 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! |
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| 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! |
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| 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: |
That my redeemer – Gaal, the one who sets free by payment. E438
He shall stand – Job prophetically recorded his hope of a coming Redeemer. SM524. 2
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| 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: |
Shall I see God – I shall yet praise the Lord in the flesh and in health. R3040:2
I shall yet receive his favor and learn what he means by these experiences, these afflictions. R5333:4
See his hand. See his works. "All flesh shall see the salvation of God." (Luke 3:6) R3040:2
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| 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. |
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| 28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? |
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| 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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