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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you torment me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">and crush me with words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Ten times now you have reproached me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">shamelessly you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If it is true that I have gone astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">my error remains my concern alone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">and use my humiliation against me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">then know that God has wronged me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">and drawn his net around me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though I cry, &#8216;Violence!&#8217; I get no response;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">though I call for help, there is no justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">he has shrouded my paths in darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He has stripped me of my honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">and removed the crown from my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He tears me down on every side till I am gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">he uproots my hope like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His anger burns against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">he counts me among his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His troops advance in force;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">they build a siege ramp against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">and encamp around my tent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;He has alienated my family from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My relatives have gone away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">my closest friends have forgotten me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">they look on me as on a stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I summon my servant, but he does not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">though I beg him with my own mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My breath is offensive to my wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">I am loathsome to my own family.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even the little boys scorn me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">when I appear, they ridicule me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All my intimate friends detest me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">those I love have turned against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I am nothing but skin and bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">only by my gums</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">for the hand of God has struck me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Why do you pursue me as God does?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">Will you never get enough of my flesh?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that my words were recorded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">that they were written on a scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">that they were inscribed with an iron tool on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and</span></span></span><span class="content"> lead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">or engraved in rock forever!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I know that my redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">vindicator</span></span></span><span class="content"> lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">and that in the end he will stand on the earth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">on my grave</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And after my skin has been destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">yet</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then</span></span></span><span class="content"> in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">destroyed, / apart from</span></span></span><span class="content"> my flesh I will see God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I myself will see him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">with my own eyes&#8212;I, and not another.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">How my heart yearns within me!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you say, &#8216;How we will hound him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">since the root of the trouble lies in him,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:28 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">you should fear the sword yourselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">and then you will know that there is judgment.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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