Job 19
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Job 19:7-20

7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

9He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.

10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

11He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.

12His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

13"He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.

14My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

15The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

16I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

18Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.

19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.

20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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