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1. Then Job answered:
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1. Then Job H347 answered H6030 and said H559 ,
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2. "How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
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2. How long H5704 H575 will ye vex H3013 my soul H5315 , and break me in pieces H1792 with words H4405 ?
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3. These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
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3. These H2088 ten H6235 times H6471 have ye reproached H3637 me : ye are not H3808 ashamed H954 that ye make yourselves strange H1970 to me.
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4. But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!
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4. And H637 be it indeed H551 that I have erred H7686 , mine error H4879 remaineth H3885 with H854 myself.
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5. If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
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5. If H518 indeed H551 ye will magnify H1431 yourselves against H5921 me , and plead H3198 against H5921 me my reproach H2781 :
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6. know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.
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6. Know H3045 now H645 that H3588 God H433 hath overthrown H5791 me , and hath compassed H5362 H5921 me with his net H4685 .
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7. "If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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7. Behold H2005 , I cry out H6817 of wrong H2555 , but I am not H3808 heard H6030 : I cry aloud H7768 , but there is no H369 judgment H4941 .
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8. He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
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8. He hath fenced up H1443 my way H734 that I cannot H3808 pass H5674 , and he hath set H7760 darkness H2822 in H5921 my paths H5410 .
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9. He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.
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9. He hath stripped me of H6584 H4480 H5921 my glory H3519 , and taken H5493 the crown H5850 from my head H7218 .
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10. He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
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10. He hath destroyed H5422 me on every side H5439 , and I am gone H1980 : and mine hope H8615 hath he removed H5265 like a tree H6086 .
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11. Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
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11. He hath also kindled H2734 his wrath H639 against H5921 me , and he counteth H2803 me unto him as one of his enemies H6862 .
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12. His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.
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12. His troops H1416 come H935 together H3162 , and raise up H5549 their way H1870 against H5921 me , and encamp H2583 round about H5439 my tabernacle H168 .
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13. "He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
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13. He hath put my brethren far H7368 H251 from H4480 H5921 me , and mine acquaintance H3045 are verily H389 estranged H2114 from H4480 me.
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14. My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
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14. My kinsfolk H7138 have failed H2308 , and my familiar friends H3045 have forgotten H7911 me.
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15. My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
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15. They that dwell H1481 in mine house H1004 , and my maids H519 , count H2803 me for a stranger H2114 : I am H1961 an alien H5237 in their sight H5869 .
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16. I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.
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16. I called H7121 my servant H5650 , and he gave me no H3808 answer H6030 ; I entreated H2603 him with H1119 my mouth H6310 .
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17. My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.
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17. My breath H7307 is strange H2114 to my wife H802 , though I entreated H2603 for the children H1121 's sake of mine own body H990 .
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18. Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.
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18. Yea H1571 , young children H5759 despised H3988 me ; I arose H6965 , and they spoke H1696 against me.
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19. All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
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19. All H3605 my inward H5475 friends H4962 abhorred H8581 me : and they whom H2088 I loved H157 are turned H2015 against me.
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20. My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
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20. My bone H6106 cleaveth H1692 to my skin H5785 and to my flesh H1320 , and I am escaped H4422 with the skin H5785 of my teeth H8127 .
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21. Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
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21. Have pity upon H2603 me , have pity upon H2603 me , O ye H859 my friends H7453 ; for H3588 the hand H3027 of God H433 hath touched H5060 me.
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22. Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
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22. Why H4100 do ye persecute H7291 me as H3644 God H410 , and are not H3808 satisfied H7646 with my flesh H4480 H1320 ?
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23. "O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll,
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23. Oh that H4310 my words H4405 were H5414 now H645 written H3789 ! oh that H4310 they were H5414 printed H2710 in a book H5612 !
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24. that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
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24. That they were graven H2672 with an iron H1270 pen H5842 and lead H5777 in the rock H6697 forever H5703 !
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25. As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.
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25. For I H589 know H3045 that my redeemer H1350 liveth H2416 , and that he shall stand H6965 at the latter H314 day upon H5921 the earth H6083 :
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26. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
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26. And though after H310 my skin H5785 worms destroy H5362 this H2063 body , yet in my flesh H4480 H1320 shall I see H2372 God H433 :
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27. whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
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27. Whom H834 I H589 shall see H2372 for myself , and mine eyes H5869 shall behold H7200 , and not H3808 another H2114 ; though my reins H3629 be consumed H3615 within H2436 me.
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28. If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!'
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28. But H3588 ye should say H559 , Why H4100 persecute H7291 we him , seeing the root H8328 of the matter H1697 is found H4672 in me?
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29. Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment."
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29. Be ye afraid H1481 of H4480 H6440 the sword H2719 : for H3588 wrath H2534 bringeth the punishments H5771 of the sword H2719 , that H4616 ye may know H3045 there is a judgment H7945 H1779 .
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