Job 19 :: King James Version (KJV)

Job Feels Insulted

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Job 19:1Then Job answered and said,

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Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

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Job 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

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Job 19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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Job 19:5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

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Job 19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Everything Is against Him

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Job 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

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Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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Job 19:9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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Job 19:10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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Job 19:11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

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Job 19:12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

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Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

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Job 19:14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

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Job 19:15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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Job 19:16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

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Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

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Job 19:18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

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Job 19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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Job 19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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Job 19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

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Job 19:22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

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Job 19:23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

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Job 19:24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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Job 19:25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

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Job 19:26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

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Job 19:27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

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Job 19:28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Job 19:29

Job 19:29Be 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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Job 19 :: King James Version (KJV)

Job Feels Insulted

Everything Is against Him

Job Says, "My Redeemer Lives"

Pericope