Douay Rheims Bible

Job 18

The Book of Job

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Chapter 19

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  Then Job answered , and said:  

 

 

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  How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?  

 

 

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  Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.  

 

 

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  For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.  

 

 

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  But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.  

 

 

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  At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.  

 

 

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  Behold I cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.  

 

 

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  He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.  

 

 

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  He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.  

 

 

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  He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.  

 

 

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  His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.  

 

 

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  His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.  

 

 

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  He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.  

 

 

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  My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.  

 

 

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  They that dwelt in my house, and my maidservants have counted me a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.  

 

 

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  I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.  

 

 

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  My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.  

 

 

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  Even fools despise me; and when I gone from them, they spoke against me.  

 

 

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  They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.  

 

 

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  The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.  

 

 

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  Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.  

 

 

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  Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?  

 

 

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  Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?  

 

 

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  With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.  

 

 

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  For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.  

 

 

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  And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.  

 

 

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  Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.  

 

 

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  Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?  

 

 

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  Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is judgment.  

 

 

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