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Job 19:7

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I shout, ‘He hurt me!’\par But I get no answer.\par Even if I call loudly for help,\par no person hears my cry for fairness.\par

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God, does hurting me make you happy?\par It seems that you don’t care about\par what you made.\par Or maybe you are happy\par with the plans that bad people make?\par

He speaks to God for me\par like a person {\cf2\super [31]} arguing for his friend.\par

“But, I know what you are thinking,\par and I know you want to hurt me.\par

“God, I cry out to you for help,\par but you don’t answer.\par I stand up and pray,\par but you don’t pay attention to me.\par

“But, surely no one will hurt a person\par that is already ruined and crying for help.\par

I am always sad and depressed,\par without relief.\par I stand up in the assembly\par and yell for help.\par

Job says,\par ‘I, Job, am innocent.\par And God is not fair to me.\par

“Job, do you think that I am not fair?\par You say that I am guilty of doing wrong\par so that you will appear innocent!\par

When an evil man takes control of a land,\par does God keep the leaders\par from seeing what is happening?\par If that is true,\par then who is God anyway?\par

God is not a man like me.\par That is why I can’t answer him.\par We can’t meet each other in court.\par

My God, I called to you during the day.\par But you did not answer me.\par And I continued calling you in the night.\par

God, you are the Holy One.\par You sit as King.\par The praises of Israel are your throne.\par

Every time I speak, I shout.\par I am always shouting about\par violence and destruction.\par I tell the people about the message\par that I received from the Lord.\par But people only insult me\par and make fun of me.\par

Even when I cry out and ask for help,\par the Lord does not listen to my prayer.\par




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