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class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,</div><div class="po2">And plead against me my reproach;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Know now that God hath subverted my cause,</div><div class="po2">And hath compassed me with His net.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I cry out: ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard;</div><div class="po2">I cry aloud, but there is no justice.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,</div><div class="po2">And hath set darkness in my paths.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He hath stripped me of my glory,</div><div class="po2">And taken the crown from my head.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;</div><div class="po2">And my hope hath He plucked up like a tree.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He hath also kindled His wrath against me,</div><div class="po2">And He counteth me unto Him as one of His adversaries.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His troops come on together,</div><div class="po2">And cast up their way against me,</div><div class="po2">And encamp round about my tent.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He hath put my brethren far from me,</div><div class="po2">And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>My kinsfolk have failed,</div><div class="po2">And my familiar friends have forgotten me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger;</div><div class="po2">I am become an alien in their sight.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,</div><div class="po2">Though I entreat him with my mouth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My breath is abhorred of my wife,</div><div class="po2">And I am loathsome to the children of my tribe.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Even urchins despised me;</div><div class="po2">If I arise, they speak against me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All my intimate friends abhor me;</div><div class="po2">And they whom I loved are turned against me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,</div><div class="po2">And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;</div><div class="po2">For the hand of God hath touched me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Why do ye persecute me as God,</div><div class="po2">And are not satisfied with my flesh?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Oh that my words were now written!</div><div class="po2">Oh that they were inscribed in a book!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>That with an iron pen and lead</div><div class="po2">They were graven in the rock for ever!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth,</div><div class="po2">And that He will witness at the last upon the dust;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And when after my skin this is destroyed,</div><div class="po2">Then without my flesh shall I see God;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Whom I, even I, shall see for myself,</div><div class="po2">And mine eyes shall behold, and not another’s.</div><div class="po2">My reins are consumed within me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>If ye say: ‘How we will persecute him!’</div><div class="po2">Seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Be ye afraid of the sword;</div><div class="po2">For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, 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