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Job 19
Job 19
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
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Then Job answered:
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"How long will you hurt me and crush me with your words?
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You have insulted me ten times now. You have attacked me without shame!
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Even if I have sinned, it is my problem, not yours!
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You want me to look bad to make yourselves look good. You say my troubles are proof that I did wrong.
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I want you to know it was God who did this. He set this trap for me.
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I shout, 'He hurt me!' but get no answer. No one hears my cry for fairness.
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God has blocked my way to keep me from getting through. He has hidden my path in darkness.
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He took away my honor. He took the crown from my head.
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He hits me on every side until I am worn out. He takes away my hope. It is like a tree pulled up by the roots.
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His anger burns against me. He treats me like an enemy.
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He sends his army to attack me. They build attack towers around me. They camp around my tent.
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"God has made my brothers hate me. Those who knew me have become strangers.
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My relatives have left me. My friends have forgotten me.
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My servant girls and visitors in my home look at me as if I am a stranger and a foreigner.
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I call for my servant, but he does not answer. Even if I beg for help, he will not answer.
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My wife hates the smell of my breath. My own brothers hate me.
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Even little children make fun of me. When I get up, they say bad things about me.
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All my close friends hate me. Even my loved ones have turned against me.
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"I am so thin, my skin hangs loose on my bones. I have little life left in me.
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"Pity me, my friends, pity me, because God is against me.
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Why do you persecute me like God does? Don't you get tired of hurting me?
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"I wish someone would write down everything I say. I wish my words were written on a scroll.
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I wish they were carved with an iron tool into lead or scratched on a rock so that they would last forever.
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I know that there is someone to defend me and that he lives! And in the end, he will stand here on earth and defend me.
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After I leave my body and my skin has been destroyed, I know I will still see God.
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I will see him with my own eyes. I myself, not someone else, will see God. And I cannot tell you how excited that makes me feel!
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"Maybe you will say, 'How can we push Job a little harder and make him realize that he is the source of his problems?'
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But you need to worry about your own punishment. God might use the sword against you so that you will know that there is a time of judgment."
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