📖 Job 19
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Iob aunswered, and saide:
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How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?
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Lo, ten times haue ye reproched me, and are not ashamed, but haue laughed me to scorne.
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Be it that I haue erred in deede, myne errour then remaineth with my selfe.
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But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:
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Know this then, that it is God which hath ouerthrowe me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.
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He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
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He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.
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He hath destroyed me on euery side and I am gone: my hope hath he taken away as a tree pluckt vp by the roote.
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His wrath is kindled against me, he taketh me as though I were his enemie.
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His men of warre come together, which made their way ouer me, and besieged my dwelling rounde about.
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He hath put my brethren farre away from me, and myne acquaintaunce are also become straungers vnto me.
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Myne owne kinsefolkes haue forsaken me, and my best acquainted haue forgotten me.
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The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house toke me for a straunger, and I am become as an aliaunt in their sight.
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I called my seruaunt, and he gaue me no aunswere: no though I prayed him with my mouth.
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Myne owne wyfe might not abyde my breath, though I prayed her for the children sake of myne owne body.
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Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.
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All my most familiers abhorred me: and they whom I loued best, are turned against me.
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My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my fleshe, onely there is left me the skinne about my teeth.
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Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
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Why do ye persecute me as God doth and are not satisfied with my fleshe?
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O that my wordes were now written, O that they were put in a booke,
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And grauen with an iron penne in leade, or in stone, to continue.
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For I am sure that my redeemer saueth, and he shall rayse vp at the latter day them that lye in the dust.
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And though after my skinne the wormes destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe:
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Whom I my selfe shall see, and myne eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my raines are consumed within me.
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But ye saide, why is he persecuted? and there was a deepe matter in me.
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But beware of the sworde: for the sword wylbe auenged of wickednesse, and be sure that there is a iudgement.