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New Living Translation (NLT)

Job 19
¹¹ His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.
¹² His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.
¹³ “My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.
¹⁴ My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
¹⁶ When I call my servant, he doesn’t come; I have to plead with him!
¹⁷ My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am rejected by my own family.
¹⁸ Even young children despise me. When I stand to speak, they turn their backs on me.
¹⁹ My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.
²⁰ I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.
²¹ “Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.