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| 1 And Job answered and said, |
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| 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words? |
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| 3 These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me. |
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| 4 And be it that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. |
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| 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach, |
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| 6 Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. |
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| 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. |
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| 8 He hath hedged 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 breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree. |
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| 11 And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies. |
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| 12 His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent. |
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| 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me. |
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| 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me. |
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| 15 The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. |
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| 16 I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth. |
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| 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb. |
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| 18 Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me. |
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| 19 All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. |
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| 20 My bones cleave 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, 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 would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
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| 24 That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! |
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| 25 And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand 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 if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of 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: --my reins are consumed within me. |
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| 28 If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,
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| 29 Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment. |
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