Job speaks of his friends 'cruelty'

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Job 19:1: Then Job answered and said,
Job 19:2: How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 19:3: These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Job 19:4: And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Job 19:5: If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Job 19:6: Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Job 19:7: Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Job 19:8: He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job 19:9: He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job 19:10: He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job 19:11: He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Job 19:12: His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Job 19:13: He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Job 19:14: My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15: They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16: I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job 19:17: My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Job 19:18: Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Job 19:19: All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 19:20: My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.