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Then Job replied [to his friends],
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"How long will you torment me and depress me with words?
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You have insulted me ten times now. You're not even ashamed of mistreating me.
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Even if it were true that I've made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.
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If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as an argument against me,
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then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.
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Indeed, I cry, 'Help! I'm being attacked!' but I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.
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"God has blocked my path so that I can't go on. He has made my paths dark.
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He has stripped me of my honor. He has taken the crown off my head.
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He beats me down on every side until I'm gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.
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He is very angry at me. He considers me to be his enemy.
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His troops assemble against me. They build a ramp to attack me and camp around my tent.
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"My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me.
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My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My house guests have forgotten me.
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My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
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I call my slave, but he doesn't answer, though I beg him.
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My breath offends my wife. I stink to my own children.
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Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me.
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All my closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.
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I am skin and bones, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
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"Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.
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Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?
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"I wish now my words were written. I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.
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I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.
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But I know that my defender lives, and afterwards, he will rise on the earth.
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Even after my skin has been stripped off my body, I will see God in my own flesh.
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I will see him with my own eyes, not with someone else's. My heart fails inside me!
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"You say, 'We will persecute him! The root of the problem is found in him.'
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Fear death, because [your anger] is punishable by death. Then you will know there is a judge."