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“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.
    I protest, but there is no justice.
God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
    He has plunged my path into darkness.
He has stripped me of my honor
    and removed the crown from my head.
10 He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished.
    He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.
11 His fury burns against me;
    he counts me as an enemy.
12 His troops advance.
    They build up roads to attack me.
    They camp all around my tent.

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“Look, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but[a] I am not answered;
I cry out, but[b] there is no justice.
He has walled up my way so that[c] I cannot pass;
and he has set darkness upon my paths.
He has taken my glory from me,
and he has removed the crown of[d] my head.
10 He has broken me down all around, and I am gone.
And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,
11 and he has kindled his wrath against me,
and he has counted me as one of his foes.[e]
12 His troops have come together
and have thrown up their rampart[f] against me
and have encamped around my tent.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:7 Or “and”
  2. Job 19:7 Hebrew “and”
  3. Job 19:8 Hebrew “and”
  4. Job 19:9 Or “from”
  5. Job 19:11 Literally “he has counted me for him as his foes”
  6. Job 19:12 Or “siege works”; compare NRSV