Holy Scripture
Job 19:3
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“"Only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.… You speak against me; you do not feel for me but bear hard upon me.… May the dignity of him who punishes me make you change your mind," he says. We do not have to trample underfoot the people who are punished by God, but we must shed tears and grieve over their fate. A…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
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1Then Job answered and said,
2How long will ye vex my soul, And destroy me with words? Only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
— Job 19:3 —
4Yea verily, I have erred in truth (But the error abides with myself) a In having spoken words which it was not right to speak; And my words err, and are unseasonable.
5But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, And insult me with reproach.