Job

Job 19 ©

1 Job, complaining of the repeated cruelty of his friends, sheweth that he hath misery enough to gratify it: 21 he calleth for pity; 23 professeth his belief of a future resurrection; 28 and warneth his friends not to persecute him.

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THEN Job answered and said,

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How along will ye b*vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

a ch. 18.2.
b 1Sa. 1.6. Ps. 42.10; 6.2,3; 69.20. 2Pe. 2.8.
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These cten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye 1make yourselves strange to me.

c Ge. 31.7. Le. 26.26. Nu. 14.22. Ne. 4.12.
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And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth dwith myself.

d Ps. 19.12. Eze. 18.4; 14.10; 16.52. Ga. 6.5. Pr. 9.12.
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If indeed ye will emagnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

e Ps. 35.26; 38.16; 41.11. Mi. 7.8. 2Co. 2.6,7.
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Know now that fGod hath overthrown me, and hath *compassed me with his net.

f Ps. 66.11,12; 44.11. La. 1.13; 3.9. Ho. 7.12. ch. 18.8,9. Eze. 5.12-17.
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Behold, gI cry out of 2wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

g Je. 20.8. Ps. 22.2; 80.4. Hab. 1.2. La. 3.8.
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He hhath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

h ch. 3.23. Ho. 2.6. La. 3.7,9.
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He hath istripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

i ch. 29.7,14,20. Ge. 31.1. Ps. 49.16,17; 89.44. Is. 61.6. Ho. 9.11. Pr. 14.24; 17.6.
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He hath destroyed me jon every side, and I am gone: and mine khope hath he removed like a tree.

j ch. 1.13-19; 2.7. Ps. 88.3,8,16,17. 2Co. 4.8. La. 2.5,6.
k ch. 6.11; 17.15; 24.20; 18.14.
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He hath also lkindled his wrath against me, and he mcounteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

l De. 32.22. Ps. 89.46.
m ch. 33.8,10; 13.24. La. 2.5.
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His ntroops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my *tabernacle.

n Ps. 34.19. ch. 10.17; 30.12. Is. 51.23.
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He hath oput my brethren far from me, and mine pacquaintance are *verily estranged from me.

o Ps. 31.11; 38.11; 69.8; 88.8,18.
p Ps. 87.4.
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My qkinsfolk have failed, and my rfamiliar friends have forgotten me.

q Pr. 18.24. Mi. 7.5. Mat. 10.21. Ps. 69.8. Pr. 17.17.
r Ps. 31.11; 55.13.
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They that sdwell in mine house, and my maids, tcount me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

s De. 10.18,19. ch. 31.32.
t ch. 12.5. Ps. 123.3,4.
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I called my servant, and uhe gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

u Pr. 29.19; 30.22. 1Ti. 6.1. Ep. 6.5. Col. 3.22.
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vMy breath is *strange to my wife, though I intreated for the wchildren's sake of 3mine own body.

v ch. 17.1; 2.9,10.
w ch. 1.2,19.
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Yea, 4young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

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All x5my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

x Ps. 41.9; 55.13,14,20; 109.4.
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My ybone cleaveth to my skin 6and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

y La. 4.8. Ps. 102.5. ch. 30.30; 7.5.
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Have zpity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched ame.

a ch. 2.10. Ps. 38.2.
z Ga. 6.2. Col. 3.12. He. 13.3. ch. 6.14. Ro. 12.15.
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Why do ye bpersecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

b Ps. 69.26. Zec. 1.15. ch. 10.16. Mi. 3.3. Re. 17.16.
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7Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were *printed in a book!

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That they were graven with an ciron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

c Je. 17.1. Is. 8.1; 30.8. Hab. 2.2.
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For dI know that my eredeemer liveth, and that he shall fstand at the latter day upon the earth:

d Ro. 8.28,38,39. 2Ti. 1.12.
e 1Co. 15.45. Mat. 20.28. ch. 33.23,24. Is. 43.14; 44.6,24; 49.26.
f Da. 12.1. Ac. 17.31. Mat. 26.64. Jn. 5.22,28.
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8And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet gin my flesh shall I see God:

g Phi. 3.21. 1Co. 15.22,53; 13.12. Ps. 16.11; 17.15. Mat. 5.8. 1Jn. 3.2. Re. 22.4.
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Whom I shall see hfor myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not 9another; 10though my *reins be consumed 11within me.

h Is. 26.19. 1Co. 15.53.
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But ye should say, Why ipersecute we him, 12seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

i v.22. Ga. 4.29. He. 11.36. Ps. 69.26.
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Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, jthat ye may know there is a judgment.

j Ec. 11.9. Ps. 58.10,11. Mat. 7.1. Ro. 14.4. Ja. 4.11.