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¹ Then Job answered and said: ² And break me in pieces with words? ³ You are not ashamed that you have wronged me. ⁴ My error remains with me. ⁵ And plead my disgrace against me, ⁶ And has surrounded me with His net. ⁷ If I cry aloud, there is no justice. ⁸ And He has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ And taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ My hope He has uprooted like a tree. ¹¹ And He counts me as one of His enemies. ¹² They encamp all around my tent. ¹³ And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. ¹⁴ And my close friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I beg him with my mouth. ¹⁷ And I am repulsive to the children of my own body. ¹⁸ I arise, and they speak against me. ¹⁹ And those whom I love have turned against me. ²⁰ And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. ²¹ For the hand of God has struck me! ²² And are not satisfied with my flesh? ²³ Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! ²⁴ With an iron pen and lead, forever! ²⁵ And He shall stand at last on the earth; ²⁶ That in my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ How my heart yearns within me! ²⁸ Since the root of the matter is found in me, ²⁹ That you may know there is a judgment.”