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

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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