Bible

1

And Job made answer and said,

2

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

3

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

4

And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

5

If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,PS:35:26
PS:38:16
PS:55:12-13

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Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.PS:66:11
JOB:16:11
JOB:27:2
JOB:10:3
LAM:1:13
JOB:3:23
JOB:6:29
JOB:18:8-10

7

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.JOB:30:24
JOB:30:20
HAB:1:2
LAM:3:7-9

8

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.JOB:3:23
JOB:30:26
LAM:3:9
LAM:3:7

9

He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.PS:89:39
PS:89:44
LAM:5:16
PRO:27:24
JOB:29:14

10

I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.JOB:12:14
JOB:24:20
JOB:7:6

11

His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.JOB:16:9
JOB:33:10
JOB:13:24

12

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.JOB:3:23
JOB:30:12

13

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.JOB:16:20
JOB:16:7
PS:69:8
PS:88:8
PS:88:18

14

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

15

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

16

At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

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My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

18

Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

19

All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.PS:38:11
PS:55:12-13
PS:41:10
PS:41:9
JER:20:10

20

My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.JOB:33:21
JOB:2:5
PS:102:5
JOB:16:8
LAM:4:8

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Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.JOB:1:11
JOB:4:5

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Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?JOB:16:11
PS:69:26
PS:27:2

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If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!JER:36:2
ISA:30:8

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And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!JER:17:1

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But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;PRO:23:11
JOB:16:19
PS:78:35
ISA:43:14
JER:50:34

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And ... without my flesh I will see God;1CO:13:12
PS:17:15
1JN:3:2
MAT:5:8

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Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.PS:73:26

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If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

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Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.JOB:15:22
PS:1:5
REV:21:8
PS:9:7
ECC:12:14
JOB:22:4