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Job Answers Bildad

19 Then Job answered:

“How long will you ·hurt [torment] me
    and crush me with your words?
You have ·insulted [disgraced; shamed] me ten times ·now [over]
    and ·attacked me without shame [or are you not shamed to wrong me?].
Even if I have ·sinned [erred; made a mistake],
    ·it is my worry alone [L my sin/mistake lodges within me].
If you want to make yourselves ·look better than I [or powerful against me],
    you can ·blame me for my suffering [make my shame/disgrace an argument against me].
Then know that God has ·wronged [or a distorted view of; unjustly blamed] me
    and ·pulled [thrown] his net around me [C like a hunter].

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Job Feels Insulted

19 Then Job answered and said,


“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?

“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].

“And if it were true that I have erred,
My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].

“If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me
And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,

Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me
And has closed His net around me.

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