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| 1 And Job answereth and saith: |
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| 2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words |
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| 3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me |
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| 4 And also truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain. |
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| 5 If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
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| 6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round, |
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| 7 Lo, I cry out violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment. |
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| 8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth. |
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| 9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. |
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| 10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. |
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| 11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries. |
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| 12 Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent. |
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| 13 My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. |
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| 14 Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, |
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| 15 Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes. |
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| 16 To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him. |
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| 17 My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb. |
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| 18 Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me. |
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| 19 Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me. |
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| 20 To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth. |
Skin of my teeth – Teeth--membrane or skin. R5994:4
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| 21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me. |
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| 22 Why do you pursue me as God And with my flesh are not satisfied |
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| 23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven |
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| 24 With a pen of iron and lead For ever in a rock they may be hewn. |
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| 25 That I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. |
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 after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh 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 I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom. |
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| 28 But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him ' And the root of the matter hath been found in me. |
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| 29 Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a judgment. |
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