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Then Job answered and said,
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Then Job answered and said:
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How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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"How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed [that] you have wronged me.
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And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
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And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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If indeed you exalt [yourselves] against me, And plead my disgrace against me,
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Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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"If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, [there is] no justice.
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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.
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He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown [from] my head.
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He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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He breaks me down on every side, And I am gone; My hope He has uprooted like a tree.
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as [one of] His enemies.
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His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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His troops come together And build up their road against me; They encamp all around my tent.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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" He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
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They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
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Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
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I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
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I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
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My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
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My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am repulsive to the children of my own body.
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Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
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Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.
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All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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All my close friends abhor me, And those whom I love have turned against me.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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" Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Why do you persecute me as God [does,] And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
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" Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
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That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!
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For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
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For I know [that] my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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And after my skin is destroyed, this [I know,] That in my flesh I shall see God,
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Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. [How] my heart yearns within me!
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But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?' -- Since the root of the matter is found in me,
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Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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Be afraid of the sword for yourselves; For wrath [brings] the punishment of the sword, That you may know [there is] a judgment."
