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The Book of Job, Chapter 19, Verse 17

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I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
King James Version
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
American Standard Version
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
New English Translation
My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.
World English Bible
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
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Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
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That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:
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And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.