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19:1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,
19:2 Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
19:3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
19:4 And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
19:5 But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
19:6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
19:7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.
19:8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
19:9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
19:10 He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
19:11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
19:12 His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
19:13 He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.
19:14 My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
19:16 I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
19:17 My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
19:18 The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.
19:19 All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
19:20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
19:21 Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
19:22 Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23 Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
19:24 And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!
19:25 For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.
19:26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
19:27 Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
19:28 But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
19:29 Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.