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How long will ye vex[H3013] my soul[H5315], and break[H1792] me in pieces with words?[H4405]
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These ten[H6235]times[H6471] have ye reproached[H3637] me: ye are not ashamed[H954] that ye make yourselves strange[H1970] to me.
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And be it indeed[H551] that I have erred[H7686], mine error[H4879]remaineth[H3885] with myself.
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If indeed[H551] ye will magnify[H1431] yourselves against me, and plead[H3198] against me my reproach[H2781]:
6Know[H3045]now[H645] that God[H433] hath overthrown[H5791] me, and hath compassed[H5362] me with his net[H4686].
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Behold, I cry out[H6817] of wrong[H2555], but I am not heard[H6030]: I cry aloud[H7768], but there is no judgment[H4941].
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He hath fenced up[H1443] my way[H734] that I cannot pass[H5674], and he hath set[H7760]darkness[H2822] in my paths[H5410].
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He hath stripped[H6584] me of my glory[H3519], and taken[H5493] the crown[H5850] from my head[H7218].
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He hath destroyed[H5422] me on every side[H5439], and I am gone[H3212]: and mine hope[H8615] hath he removed[H5265] like a tree[H6086].
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He hath also kindled[H2734] his wrath[H639] against me, and he counteth[H2803] me unto him as one of his enemies[H6862].
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His troops[H1416]come[H935]together[H3162], and raise up[H5549] their way[H1870] against me, and encamp[H2583] round about[H5439] my tabernacle[H168].
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He hath put[H7368] my brethren[H251]far[H7368] from me, and mine acquaintance[H3045] are verily estranged[H2114] from me.
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My kinsfolk[H7138] have failed[H2308], and my familiar friends[H3045] have forgotten[H7911] me.
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They that dwell[H1481] in mine house[H1004], and my maids[H519], count[H2803] me for a stranger[H2114]: I am an alien[H5237] in their sight[H5869].
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I called[H7121] my servant[H5650], and he gave me no answer[H6030]; I intreated[H2603] him with[H1119] my mouth[H6310].
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My breath[H7307] is strange[H2114] to my wife[H802], though I intreated[H2589] for the children's sake of mine own body[H990].
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Yea, young children[H5759]despised[H3988] me; I arose[H6965], and they spake[H1696] against me.
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All my inward[H5475]friends[H4962]abhorred[H8581] me: and they whom I loved[H157] are turned[H2015] against me.
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My bone[H6106]cleaveth[H1692] to my skin[H5785] and to my flesh[H1320], and I am escaped[H4422] with the skin[H5785] of my teeth[H8127].
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Have pity[H2603] upon me, have pity[H2603] upon me, O ye my friends[H7453]; for the hand[H3027] of God[H433] hath touched[H5060] me.
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Why do ye persecute[H7291] me as God[H410], and are not satisfied[H7646] with my flesh?[H1320]
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Oh that[H5414] my words[H4405] were now[H645]written[H3789]! oh that[H5414] they were printed[H2710] in a book[H5612]!
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That they were graven[H2672] with an iron[H1270]pen[H5842] and lead[H5777] in the rock[H6697] for ever[H5703]!
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For I know[H3045] that my redeemer[H1350]liveth[H2416], and that he shall stand[H6965] at the latter[H314] day upon the earth[H6083]:
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And though after[H310] my skin[H5785] worms destroy[H5362] this body, yet in my flesh[H1320] shall I see[H2372]God[H433]:
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Whom I shall see[H2372] for myself, and mine eyes[H5869] shall behold[H7200], and not another[H2114]; though my reins[H3629] be consumed[H3615]within[H2436] me.
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But ye should say[H559], Why persecute[H7291] we him, seeing the root[H8328] of the matter[H1697] is found[H4672] in me?
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Be ye afraid[H1481]of[H6440] the sword[H2719]: for wrath[H2534] bringeth the punishments[H5771]of[H6440] the sword[H2719], that ye may know[H3045] there is a judgment[H1779].