Job 19:7

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

For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

Lo! he may slay me, yet , for him, will I wait, - Nevertheless, my ways - unto his face, will I show to be right:

That one might plead, for a man, with GOD, - Even a son of man, for his friend!

Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place;

Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!

For Job hath said - I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;

Wilt thou even frustrate my justice? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest appear right?

Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;