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19:1 icapshen Iob answered, and sayd,  
19:2 How long will yee vexe my soule, and breake me in pieces with words?  
19:3 These tenne times haue ye reproched me: you are not ashamed that you make your selues strange to me. Margin Note
19:4 And be it indeed that I haue erred, mine errour remaineth with my selfe.  
19:5 If indeed yee will magnifie your selues against me, and plead against me my reproch:  
19:6 Know now that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.  
19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloude, but there is no iudgement. Margin Note
19:8 Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes.  
19:9 Hee hath stript me of my glory, and taken the crowne from my head.  
19:10 He hath destroyed me on euery side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he remooued like a tree.  
19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and hee counteth me vnto him as one of his enemies.  
19:12 His troupes come together, and raise vp their way against me, and encampe round about my tabernacle.  
19:13 Hee hath put my brethren farre from me, and mine acquaintance are verely estranged from me.  
19:14 My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me.  
19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maides count me for a stranger: I am an aliant in their sight.  
19:16 I called my seruant, and he gaue me no answere: I intreated him with my mouth.  
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body. Margin Note
19:18 Yea, yong children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. Margin Note
19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loued, are turned against me. Margin Note
19:20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne, and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skinne of my teeth. Margin Note
19:21 Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.  
19:22 Why doe ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?  
19:23 Oh that my wordes were now written, oh that they were printed in a booke! Margin Note
19:24 That they were grauen with an iron pen and lead, in the rocke for euer.  
19:25 For I know that my Redeemer liueth, and that he shall stand at the latter day, vpon the earth:  
19:26 And though after my skin, wormes destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Margin Note
19:27 Whom I shal see for my selfe, and mine eyes shall beholde, and not another, though my reines bee consumed within me. Margin Note
19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me. Margin Note
19:29 Bee ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that yee may know there is a iudgement.