1But Job answered and said:

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2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

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Psalms 55:21, Job 18:2, Psalms 6:2, Psalms 6:3, Proverbs 18:21

3These ten times have ye reviled me; Without shame do ye stun me!

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Genesis 31:7, Genesis 31:7, Job 18:4, Job 18:21, Job 15:4

4And be it, indeed, that I have erred, My error abideth with myself.

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Proverbs 9:12, Proverbs 9:12, Job 11:3, Job 11:6, Ezekiel 18:4

5Since, indeed, ye magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach,

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Psalms 55:12, Psalms 38:16, Psalms 35:26, Psalms 55:12, Psalms 38:16

6Know then that it is God who hath brought me low; He hath encompassed me with his net.

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Job 18:8, Job 18:10, Job 18:8, Job 18:10, Job 27:2

7Behold, I complain of wrong, but receive no answer; I cry aloud, but obtain no justice.

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Habakkuk 1:2, Habakkuk 1:3, Habakkuk 1:2, Habakkuk 1:3, Lamentations 3:8

8He hath fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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Job 3:23, Job 3:23, Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 3:7, Psalms 88:8

9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

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Psalms 89:44, Psalms 89:44, Job 29:7, Job 29:14, Job 29:7

10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone! He hath torn up my hope like a tree.

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Job 24:20, Job 24:20, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 37:35

11He kindleth his anger against me, And counteth me as his enemy.

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Job 13:24, Job 13:24, Job 16:9, Job 33:10, Job 16:9

12His troops advance together against me; They throw up for themselves a way to me, And encamp around my dwelling.

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Job 30:12, Job 30:12, Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 10:6, Job 16:11

13My brethren he hath put far from me, And my acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

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Psalms 88:8, Psalms 88:8, Psalms 88:18, Psalms 69:8, Psalms 88:18

14My kinsfolk have forsaken me, And my bosom friends have forgotten me.

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Psalms 38:11, Psalms 38:11, Matthew 10:21, 2 Samuel 16:23, Jeremiah 20:10

15The foreigners of my house, yea, my own maid-servants, regard me as a stranger; I am an alien in their eyes.

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Job 31:31, Job 31:32, Psalms 123:3, Job 31:31, Job 31:32

16I call my servant, and he maketh no answer; With my own mouth do I entreat him.

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Job 1:15, Job 1:17, Job 1:15, Job 1:17, Job 1:19

17My breath is become strange to my wife, And my prayers also to my own mother’s sons.

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Job 17:1, Job 2:9, Job 2:10, Job 17:1, Job 2:9

18Even young children despise me; When I rise up, they speak against me.

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2 Kings 2:23, 2 Kings 2:23, Job 30:1, Job 30:12, Job 30:1

19All my bosom friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

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Psalms 41:9, Psalms 41:9, Psalms 55:12, Psalms 55:14, Psalms 109:4

20My bones cleave to my flesh and my skin, And I have scarcely escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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Psalms 102:5, Psalms 102:5, Lamentations 4:8, Lamentations 4:8, Job 33:19

21Have pity upon me, O ye my friends! have pity upon me; For the hand of God hath smitten me!

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Job 1:11, Job 1:11, Psalms 38:2, Psalms 38:2, Job 6:14

22Why do ye persecute me like God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

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Psalms 69:26, Psalms 69:26, Job 10:16, Isaiah 51:23, Job 2:5

23O that my words were now written! O that they were marked down in a scroll!

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Isaiah 30:8, Isaiah 30:8, Job 31:35, Isaiah 8:1, Job 31:35

24That with an iron pen, and with lead, They were engraven upon the rock for ever!

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Jeremiah 17:1, Jeremiah 17:1, Deuteronomy 27:2, Deuteronomy 27:3, Exodus 28:11

25Yet I know that my Vindicator liveth, And will hereafter stand up on the earth;

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Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:7, Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 54:5, Psalms 78:35

26And though with my skin this body be wasted away, Yet without my flesh shall I see God.

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Matthew 5:8, Matthew 5:8, 1 John 3:2, 1 John 3:2, Psalms 17:15

27Yea, I shall see him my friend; My eyes shall behold him, and not another: For this, my soul panteth within me.

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Psalms 73:26, Psalms 73:26, Isaiah 26:19, Numbers 24:17, Isaiah 26:19

28Since ye say, "How may we persecute him, And find grounds of accusation against him?"

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Job 19:22, Job 19:22, 1 Kings 14:13, Psalms 69:26, 1 Kings 14:13

29Be ye afraid of the sword! For malice is a crime for the sword; That ye may know that judgment cometh.

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Ecclesiastes 12:14, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Ecclesiastes 12:14, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Psalms 9:7