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Job 19:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. "

Job 19:21

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19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

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