| 1. Now Job answered and said, |
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א. |
| 2. "How long will you grieve my soul and crush me with words? |
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ב. |
| 3. Already ten times you humiliate me; you are not ashamed to alienate yourselves from me. |
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ג. |
| 4. And even if I have indeed erred, let my error stay with me. |
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ד. |
| 5. If indeed, you are added to my [troubles], and prove against me my reproach. |
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ה. |
| 6. Know then that God has perverted my cause, and He has encompassed me with His net. |
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ו. |
| 7. Behold, I cry out [concerning] violence but I am not answered; I cry aloud but there is no justice. |
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ז. |
| 8. He has fenced in my way so that I cannot pass, and He places darkness on my paths. |
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ח. |
| 9. He has stripped me of my honor, and removed the crown from my head. |
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ט. |
| 10. He has broken me down all around and I have gone away; He has uprooted my hope like a tree. |
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י. |
| 11. He has kindled His wrath against me, and He has regarded me as [one of] His enemies. |
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יא. |
| 12. Together His troops advance; they build their road against me, and camp around my tent. |
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יב. |
| 13. He has distanced my brothers from me, and my friends became strange to me. |
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יג. |
| 14. My relatives are gone, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
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יד. |
| 15. Those who live in my house and my maidservants consider me a stranger; in their sight I am a foreigner. |
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טו. |
| 16. I call my servant and he does not respond; with my mouth I appeal to him. |
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טז. |
| 17. My breath is strange to my wife, and I appeal to the children of my body. |
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יז. |
| 18. Even children despised me; I get up and they talk about me. |
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יח. |
| 19. All my intimate friends abhor me; and those whom I loved turned against me. |
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יט. |
| 20. My bones cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
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כ. |
| 21. Have pity on me, have pity on me, you, my friends, for God's hand has touched me. |
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כא. |
| 22. Why do you persecute me like God, and why are you not sated with my flesh? |
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כב. |
| 23. Would then that my words be written; would that they were inscribed in a book! |
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כג. |
| 24. With an iron pen and lead, forever on the rock they should be hewn. |
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כד. |
| 25. But I know that my Redeemer lives, and the last on earth, He will endure. |
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כה. |
| 26. And after my skin, they have cut into this, and from my flesh I see judgment. |
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כו. |
| 27. That I see for myself, and my eyes have seen and not a stranger; my kidneys are consumed within me. |
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כז. |
| 28. Shall you say, 'Why should we persecute him?' And what is the root of the matter found in me? |
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כח. |
| 29. Fear the sword, for the wrath of iniquities is the sword, in order that you know the plunder." |
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כט. |
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