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Job 19:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

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My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.

At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.




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