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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 deal hardly with 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 subverted me in my cause,
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 for help, but there is no justice.
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8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,
And 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 broken me down on every side, and I am gone;
And my hope hath he plucked up 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 adversaries.
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12 His troops come on together,
And cast up their way against me,
And encamp round about my tent.
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13 He hath put my brethren far from me,
And those of mine acquaintance are wholly 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 my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:
I am an alien in their sight.
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16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,
Though I entreat him with my mouth.
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17 My breath is strange to my wife,
And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
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18 Even young children despise me;
If I arise, they speak against me.
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19 All my familiar friends abhor 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.
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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 inscribed in a book!
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24 That with an iron pen and lead
They were graven in the rock for ever!
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25 For as to me, I know that my Redeemer liveth,
And at last he shall rise upon this dust:
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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 is destroyed, even this body,
Yet apart from this my flesh shall I see God;
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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, even I, shall see, on my side,
And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.
My heart is consumed within me.
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28 If ye say, How we will persecute him!
And that 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 that judgment. |
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