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JOB
- And break me in pieces with words?
- These ten times have ye reproached me:
- Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
- And be it indeed that I have erred,
- Mine error remaineth with myself.
- If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,
- And plead against me my reproach:
- Know now that God hath overthrown me,
- And hath compassed me with his net.
- Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:
- I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,
- And he hath set darkness in my paths.
- He hath stripped me of my glory,
- And taken the crown from my head.
- He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:
- And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
- He hath also kindled his wrath against me,
- And he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
- His troops come together, and raise up their way against me,
- And encamp round about my tabernacle.
- He hath put my brethren far from me,
- And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
- My kinsfolk have failed,
- And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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