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THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,<\/strong><\/p>\n HOW LONG WILL YE VEX MY SOUL,<\/strong><\/p>\n AND BREAK ME IN PIECES WITH WORDS?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These ten times have ye reproached me:<\/p>\n ye are not ashamed<\/p>\n that ye make yourselves strange to me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And be it indeed that I have erred,<\/p>\n mine error remaineth with myself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,<\/p>\n and plead against me my reproach:<\/p>\n Know now that God hath overthrown me,<\/p>\n and hath compassed me with his net.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Behold,<\/p>\n I cry out of wrong,<\/p>\n but I am not heard:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I cry aloud,<\/p>\n but there is no judgment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He hath fenced up my way<\/p>\n that I cannot pass,<\/p>\n and he hath set darkness in my paths.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He hath stripped me of my glory,<\/p>\n and taken the crown from my head.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He hath destroyed me on every side,<\/p>\n and I am gone:<\/p>\n and mine hope hath he removed<\/p>\n like a tree.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He hath also kindled his wrath against me,<\/p>\n and he counteth me unto him<\/p>\n as one of his enemies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n His troops come together,<\/p>\n and raise up their way against me,<\/p>\n and encamp round about my tabernacle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He hath put my brethren far from me,<\/p>\n and mine acquaintance<\/p>\n are verily estranged from me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My kinsfolk have failed,<\/p>\n and my familiar friends have forgotten me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They that dwell in mine house,<\/p>\n and my maids,<\/p>\n count me for a stranger:<\/p>\n I am an alien in their sight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I called my servant,<\/p>\n and he gave me no answer;<\/p>\n I intreated him with my mouth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My breath is strange to my wife,<\/p>\n though I intreated for the children’s sake<\/p>\n of mine own body.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yea, young children despised me;<\/p>\n I arose,<\/p>\n and they spake against me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All my inward friends abhorred me:<\/p>\n and they whom I loved are turned against me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My bone cleaveth to my skin<\/p>\n and to my flesh,<\/p>\n and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have pity upon me,<\/p>\n have pity upon me,<\/p>\n O ye my friends;<\/p>\n for the hand of God hath touched me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why do ye persecute me as God,<\/p>\n and are not satisfied with my flesh?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh that my words were now written!<\/p>\n oh that they were printed in a book!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That they were graven<\/p>\n with an iron pen<\/p>\n and lead<\/p>\n in the rock for ever!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For I know that my redeemer liveth,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and that he shall stand at the latter day<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n upon the earth:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And though after my skin worms destroy this body,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n yet in my flesh shall I see God:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whom I shall see for myself,<\/p>\n and mine eyes shall behold,<\/p>\n and not another;<\/p>\n though my reins be consumed within me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But ye should say,<\/p>\n Why persecute we him,<\/p>\n seeing the root of the matter is found in me?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Be ye afraid of the sword:<\/p>\n for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,<\/p>\n that ye may know there is a judgment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n next<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n prev<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, HOW LONG WILL YE VEX MY SOUL, AND BREAK ME IN PIECES WITH WORDS? These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. … Continue reading Job 19<\/em><\/h6>\n