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Job 20

The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort.

I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

And ... without my flesh I will see God;

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Job 19

And Job made answer and said,

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

Job 18

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;