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words?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">are you not ashamed to wrong me?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>And even if it is true that I have erred,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my error remains with me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>If indeed you magnify yourselves against me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and make my humiliation an argument against me,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>know then that God has put me in the wrong,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and closed his net around me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I call aloud, but there is no justice.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and he has set darkness upon my paths.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He has stripped my glory from me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and taken the crown from my head.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he has uprooted my hope like a tree.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>He has kindled his wrath against me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and counts me as his adversary.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>His troops come on together;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they have thrown up siegeworks<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15380a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> against me,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and encamp around my tent.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>“He has put my family far from me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>My relatives and my close friends have failed me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>the guests in my house have forgotten me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my serving girls count me as a stranger;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I have become an alien in their eyes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I must myself plead with him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>My breath is repulsive to my wife;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I am loathsome to my own family.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Even young children despise me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when I rise, they talk against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>All my intimate friends abhor me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and those whom I loved have turned against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the hand of God has touched me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Why do you, like God, pursue me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">never satisfied with my flesh?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>“O that my words were written down!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O that they were inscribed in a book!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>O that with an iron pen and with lead</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they were engraved on a rock forever!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>For I know that my Redeemer<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15393b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> lives,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and that at the last he<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15393c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> will stand upon the earth;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15393d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>and after my skin has been thus destroyed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">then in<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15394e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> my flesh I shall see God,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15394f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>whom I shall see on my side,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15395g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my eyes shall behold, and not another.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">My heart faints within me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him’;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>be afraid of the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so that you may know there is a judgment.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 19:12">Job 19:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>their way</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 19:25">Job 19:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Vindicator</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 19:25">Job 19:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>that he the Last</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 19:25">Job 19:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>dust</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 19:26">Job 19:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>without</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 19:26">Job 19:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 19:27">Job 19:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>for myself</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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