Job 19:13-29 - I Am Forgotten

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“He has put my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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“My relatives have failed [me],
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
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“Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.
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“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with words.
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“My breath is repulsive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
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“Even young children despise me;
When I get up, they speak against me.
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“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.
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“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.

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“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.
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“Why do you persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

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“Oh, that the words I now speak were written!
Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!
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“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
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“For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives,
And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.
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“Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death],
Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,
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Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.

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“If you say, ‘How shall we [continue to] persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?’
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“Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance] for yourselves,
For wrathful are the punishments of that sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”