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19 Then Job answered,

“How long will you torment me,
    and crush me with words?
You have reproached me ten times.
    You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
If it is true that I have erred,
    my error remains with myself.
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
    and plead against me my reproach,
know now that God has subverted me,
    and has surrounded me with his net.

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Job’s Sixth Speech: A Response to Bildad

19 Then[a] Job answered and said,

How long[b] will you[c] torment me[d]
and crush me with words?
These ten times you[e] have disgraced me;
you[f] are not ashamed that you[g] have attacked[h] me.
And what is more, if I have truly erred,
my error remains with me.
If indeed you[i] must magnify yourselves against me,
and you[j] must let my disgrace argue against me,
know then that God has wronged me
and has surrounded me with his net.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 19:2 Literally “Until when”
  3. Job 19:2 Plural
  4. Job 19:2 Hebrew “my soul,” or “my self”
  5. Job 19:3 Plural
  6. Job 19:3 Plural
  7. Job 19:3 Plural
  8. Job 19:3 Or “astonished”
  9. Job 19:5 Plural
  10. Job 19:5 Plural