✧1Then Job answered and said, ✧2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? ✧3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. ✧4And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. ✧5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; ✧6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net. ✧7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. ✧8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths. ✧9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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