Job Feels Insulted

19 Then Job responded,

“How long will you torment [a]me
And crush me with words?
These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.
Even if I have truly done wrong,
My error stays with me.
If indeed you (A)exalt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,
Know then that (B)God has wronged me
And has surrounded me with (C)His net.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:2 Lit my soul

19 Then Job answered and said,

How long will ye vex my soul,
And break me in pieces with words?
These ten times have ye reproached me:
Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
And be it indeed that I have erred,
Mine error remaineth with myself.
[a]If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,
And plead against me my reproach;
Know now that God hath [b]subverted me in my cause,
And hath compassed me with his net.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:5 Or, Will ye indeed . . . reproach?
  2. Job 19:6 Or, overthrown me