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19 My best friends hate me.
    People that I love have turned against me.
20 My body is now only skin and bones.
    I still breathe but I am only just alive.
21 Please be kind to me, my friends.
God has caused me to suffer,
    so please be kind to me.

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19 All my intimate friends(A) detest me;(B)
    those I love have turned against me.(C)
20 I am nothing but skin and bones;(D)
    I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[a]

21 “Have pity on me, my friends,(E) have pity,
    for the hand of God has struck(F) me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:20 Or only by my gums