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Job Replies: I Know That My Vindicator Lives

19 Then Job answered:

“How long will you torment me
    and break me in pieces with words?
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
    are you not ashamed to wrong me?
And even if it is true that I have erred,
    my error remains with me.(A)
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me
    and make my humiliation an argument against me,(B)
know then that God has put me in the wrong
    and closed his net around me.(C)

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Job’s Reply to Bildad

19 Then Job answered:

How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?
You have humiliated me ten times now,
and you mistreat[a] me without shame.(A)
Even if it is true that I have sinned,
my mistake concerns only[b] me.
If you really want to appear superior(B) to me
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
then understand that it is God who has wronged me
and caught me in his net.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:3 Hb obscure
  2. 19:4 Lit mistake lives with